> > A google search turned up a document that is claimed to give
> > the technical details of the CP/M .ARC and .ARK formats, but
> > the file itself is in a .ARK archive.
>
> Oh, that's clever. I suppose the guy who did that also keeps his
> passwords in a password protected file?
Well when last I looked the PDF spec was published as
a PDF :-)
Lots of stuff gets stored in the archive-format-du-jour
(like .ZIP or .RAR today). The assumption is (I guess)
that the format is so widely diffused that it is impossible
to imagine that people would not know about it just a few
(hundred) years down the line.
Is ASCII much better? How does it compare to puched cards?
Antonio
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Antonio Carlini arcarlini_at_iee.org
Received on Thu Feb 03 2005 - 16:01:03 GMT