Hi, On 1/29/11, cordat...@aol.com <cordat...@aol.com> wrote: > The discussion about TUNZ got me thinking about the ARC file format. > > There are several of the old shareware utilities out on the internet - ARCE, > ARC-E, PKXARC .. > but are there any available which are GPL or close to GPL? (For DOS, of > course!)
The unpacker I used (occasionally) in recent times was DEARC, mostly 3.1 (w/ TP src) though someone unofficially might have updated it for TP4 (DEARC40). http://www.vectorbd.com/bfd/pascal/dearc40.lzh The other was written in ancient (LMI?) Forth (on Taygeta FTP archive somewhere), so I never tested it. (They had a lot of old .ARC files, not many others still do.) Okay, well, here's a different one (oddly), but interesting at least: ftp://ftp.taygeta.com/pub/forth/Archive/talk/unarc_2.txt ftp://ftp.taygeta.com/pub/forth/Archive/talk/unarc2.scr A quick search also reveals: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_(file_format) ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/compress/nomarch-1.4.tar.gz http://sourceforge.net/projects/arc/ Can't find Thom's statement, but I'm pretty sure he said "personal" use of ARC (without registering) was okay. But take that with a grain of salt. ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/pack/arc602.exe > Poking around I noticed that Vernon Buerg passed away a year or so ago. His ARCE seemed to (mostly) work, and it was very very small too. ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/pack/arce41a.zip > It seems like a lot of shareware will wind up dying with their authors due > to licensing issues. (I think?) U.S. Copyright is 70 years after author's death. :-/ > I wonder if shareware authors or their heirs are willing to open up their > software licensing after death Probably not. Clearly copyright law is in need of reform for software, but nobody's bothered to do it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
