Shawn Highfield wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

The iron fist once came out when someone spelled your name incorrectly. It's "SEAN, not SHAWN!!! - LIFE TIME BAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" LOL!

I don't remember that but I believe you. There was a time when I'd do such
a thing. I still have a temper but it takes a LOT to get me that upset. If
I get really upset, I pay a pretty exacting physical toll these days. I
just can't get so mad else I get sick. I still get irritated a lot though. Try as I will, I don't think that will ever change.

Later,
Sean

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Sean Dennis wrote to Shawn Highfield <=-

It's "SEAN, not SHAWN!!! - LIFE TIME BAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" LOL!

I don't remember that but I believe you. There was a time when I'd do

I was joking, you were never quite that bad. :)

these days. I just can't get so mad else I get sick. I still get irritated a lot though. Try as I will, I don't think that will ever change.

I get irritated by stupid. So you can imagine how many times a day it
happens to me as I drive around 10 hours a day.

Shawn

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Tiny wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

I was joking, you were never quite that bad. :)

Sometimes I wonder if I was.

I get irritated by stupid. So you can imagine how many times a day it happens to me as I drive around 10 hours a day.

I don't think I could do that anymore. With all of my physical problems,
it's an effort at times just to move around the apartment. :/

Later,
Sean

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Sean Dennis wrote to Tiny <=-

I was joking, you were never quite that bad. :)

Sometimes I wonder if I was.

Only when it comes to rar vs zip.

I don't think I could do that anymore. With all of my physical
problems, it's an effort at times just to move around the apartment. :/

Getting old is fun isn't it?

Shawn

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Shawn Highfield wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

Only when it comes to rar vs zip.

Don't tempt me. I might still do that to keep you on your toes.

I do have arc installed here too. <G>

Getting old is fun isn't it?

Yep. My lower left leg is suspiciously swollen and I am worried. I was
able to get an appointment at 3 PM with my doctor to have my leg checked
out. Swelling like that can be a symptom of Charcot foot or a blood clot of which I want neither. Hopefully things will be okay.

Later,
Sean

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Sean Dennis wrote to Shawn Highfield <=-

Only when it comes to rar vs zip.

Don't tempt me. I might still do that to keep you on your toes.

I still have your squish instructions, and Andrew would help me with
Talisman. ;)

I do have arc installed here too. <G>

That one might cause problems unless there is a modern port of it.

Yep. My lower left leg is suspiciously swollen and I am worried. I
was able to get an appointment at 3 PM with my doctor to have my leg checked out. Swelling like that can be a symptom of Charcot foot or a blood clot of which I want neither. Hopefully things will be okay.

My right leg did that about a year ago. Right in the first shutdown.
I was able to get an ultrasound pretty fast though (as doc thought clot) however everything was working fine and swelling went down on it's own.

Shawn

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Shawn Highfield wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

I still have your squish instructions, and Andrew would help me with Talisman. ;)

Rats, foiled again.

That one might cause problems unless there is a modern port of it.

There is source code (I believe this may be original source code?) that one could compile it from:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/arc/

Fun fact: Phil Katz ripped off the ARC source code from SEA and created ZIP from it. Dirty little secret of his. There's an interesting video called
"The Troubling Origins of .ZIP" on YouTube about how Phil got people to use
ZIP even though it wasn't really his original work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu7sY1LOWiI

He probably just took cues from Microsoft. If it wasn't for Bill Gates'
mother lobbying for him at IBM, IBM wouldn't have used MS-DOS.

My right leg did that about a year ago. Right in the first shutdown.
I was able to get an ultrasound pretty fast though (as doc thought
clot) however everything was working fine and swelling went down on
it's own.

Nothing wrong, thankfully, though I think I may have been eating too much
salt. No ultrasound for me though; the VA would rather you die first than
make it spend money on you rather than buying art or solar panels.

Later,
Sean

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https://sourceforge.net/projects/arc/

Fun fact: Phil Katz ripped off the ARC source code from SEA and created ZIP from it. Dirty little secret of his. There's an interesting video called "The Troubling Origins of .ZIP" on YouTube about how Phil got people to use ZIP even though it wasn't really his original work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu7sY1LOWiI

You might remember this, but Phil's ZIP predecessor was actually called PKARC/PKxARC. SEA called him on it, so he switched briefly to
PKPAK/PKunPAK (which still produced, and opened, only ARC packets), before coming out with PKZIP/PKunZIP.

I assumed he changed the compression method and not just the extension, but
I guess maybe not. :)

Mike

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Sean Dennis wrote to Shawn Highfield <=-

Nothing wrong, thankfully, though I think I may have been eating too
much salt.

That could be it.

No ultrasound for me though; the VA would rather you die
first than make it spend money on you rather than buying art or solar panels.

Art is more important then someone's life. <sigh>

Shawn

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Mike,

You might remember this, but Phil's ZIP predecessor was actually called PKARC/PKxARC. SEA called him on it, so he switched briefly to PKPAK/PKunPAK (which still produced, and opened, only ARC packets),
before coming out with PKZIP/PKunZIP.

I had wondered if there was any relation.

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That drink was a killer. <G>

Daryl

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Re: Re: Names
By: Sean Dennis to Shawn Highfield on Mon May 24 2021 12:37 pm

Shawn Highfield wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

Only when it comes to rar vs zip.

Don't tempt me. I might still do that to keep you on your toes.

I do have arc installed here too. <G>

Getting old is fun isn't it?

Yep. My lower left leg is suspiciously swollen and I am worried. I was able to get an appointment at 3 PM with my doctor to have my leg checked out. Swelling like that can be a symptom of Charcot foot or a blood clot of which I want neithe
Hopefully things will be okay.

Later,
Sean

... Any given program will expand to fill all available resources.

I know for a fact they are prescribing this: https://www.lagranparafarmacia.es/serrapeptasa?search=serrapeptasa

for swellings caused by circulatory issues, but I don know the particulars.

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Daryl Stout wrote to Mike Powell <=-

You might remember this, but Phil's ZIP predecessor was actually called PKARC/PKxARC. SEA called him on it, so he switched briefly to PKPAK/PKunPAK (which still produced, and opened, only ARC packets),
before coming out with PKZIP/PKunZIP.

I had wondered if there was any relation.

The last installment of Jason Scott's "BBS Documentary" has an interview
with the author of PKARC, talking about the issues with PKZIP. It's a shame Phil Katz passed away, it'd be interesting to hear both sides of the story.



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Mike Powell wrote to SEAN DENNIS <=-

I assumed he changed the compression method and not just the extension, but I guess maybe not. :)

He changed it just enough to be able to call it his own even though it was
far from anything original.

I've always had better results with other archivers like ARJ, RAR, and such.

It's interesting how the BBS community had a hand in ruining SEA and its products.

The only reason I use ZIP is because of its defacto standard status.
Otherwise I'd not use it at all.

Later,
Sean

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He changed it just enough to be able to call it his own even though it was far from anything original.

I've always had better results with other archivers like ARJ, RAR, and such.

Same here, but with ARJ and LZH. By the time RAR got popular, I think I
had give into ZIP. :)

It's interesting how the BBS community had a hand in ruining SEA and its products.

The only reason I use ZIP is because of its defacto standard status. Otherwise I'd not use it at all.

Yeah, I don't think most of us had the full story back then. For several years, I would convert any ARC and ZIP files on the BBS to ARJ or LZH, partially because I was running on a system with limited disk space and
those usually made smaller files. I think I quit doing that when I started adding CD ROM collections and/or when Windows pretty much made ZIP the standard. By then, I had a bigger HD, too.

Mike

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Arelor wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

I know for a fact they are prescribing this: https://www.lagranparafarmacia.es/serrapeptasa?search=serrapeptasa
for swellings caused by circulatory issues, but I don know the particulars.

Very interesting and informative page about this at: https://www.verywellhealth.com/serrapeptase-89513

I couldn't take it as I am on Elliquis (blood thinner).

Later,
Sean

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Mike Powell wrote to SEAN DENNIS <=-

Yeah, I don't think most of us had the full story back then. For
several years, I would convert any ARC and ZIP files on the BBS to ARJ
or LZH, partially because I was running on a system with limited disk space and those usually made smaller files. I think I quit doing that when I started adding CD ROM collections and/or when Windows pretty
much made ZIP the standard. By then, I had a bigger HD, too.

I've been a registered user of RAR for at least 15 years now and I'm happy
with it. That's what I use these days, with its AV (authenticity verified) stamp, for my official Cheepware releases. I also use tar.gz for some
things.

Later,
Sean

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Re: Re: Names
By: Sean Dennis to Mike Powell on Sat May 29 2021 08:37 pm

Mike Powell wrote to SEAN DENNIS <=-

Yeah, I don't think most of us had the full story back then. For several years, I would convert any ARC and ZIP files on the BBS to ARJ or LZH, partially because I was running on a system with limited disk space and those usually made smaller files. I think I quit doing that when I started adding CD ROM collections and/or when Windows pretty much made ZIP the standard. By then, I had a bigger HD, too.

I've been a registered user of RAR for at least 15 years now and I'm happy with it. That's what I use these days, with its AV (authenticity verified) stamp, for my official Cheepware releases. I also use tar.gz for some things.

Later,
Sean

... Internal consistency is more highly valued than efficiency.

I just use 7zip. I never found the need to register RAR when you coulñd use 7zip instead. It comes with an unrar utility too.

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Arelor wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

I just use 7zip. I never found the need to register RAR when you
coul}%d use 7zip instead. It comes with an unrar utility too.

RAR handles multi-part volumes quite well and as someone who used to work a
lot with USENET, RAR was the "defacto" standard when it came to working with archives distributed via USENET, much like how ZIP is a standard in BBSing.

I also registered RAR for its AV stamp ("authenticity verified"). I had problems in the early 2000s with people screwing up my Cheepware release archives by inserting BBS ads and the like into them then redistributing
them.

When it comes down to it, it's a personal preference. These days I tend to
use tar.gz files all the time. There is a new archiver I found the other
day, though the name escapes me now, that purports to be a hybrid of 7Zip
and RAR.

Later,
Sean

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