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    From Andrew Belov@1:2320/100 to All on Fri Mar 29 02:44:02 2002
    1.71.5.204-B20160823
    Hello All!

    The world-famous ARJ archiver, known for its unsurpassed flexibility,
    is now available in the open-source implementation. While being 100%
    compatible with the original archiver from Robert Jung, this
    long-awaited version adds support for OS/2, Linux and FreeBSD systems
    along with a broad range of platform-specific options: upport for
    extended attributes, links, file permissions/ownership and
    cross-platform interoperability.

    For a brief practical introduction of the open-source ARJ, be sure to
    visit the project pages at SourceForge:

    http://arj.sourceforge.net
    http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/arj

    The first page also contains some links to the binary snapshots of our
    latest (and last) closed-source releases with the "free for personal
    use" policy. When downloading these files, be sure to use "binary"
    mode as they are SFX archives.

    To obtain the source code, set up a CVS (Concurrent Versions System)
    client and perform a checkout:

    cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.arj.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/arj login
    cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.arj.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/arj co arj

    You may also browse the ARJ source code via Web CVS as provided by
    SourceForge.

    Within the several forthcoming weeks, the future directions of the
    project will be decided. This will include changes and fixes to the
    "stable" 2.78 release - most importantly, ports to other UNIX-like
    platforms (currently, only IA32) beyond Linux and FreeBSD.

    There are some opportunities for volunteers wishing to participate in documenting ARJ or translating it to national languages. The latter
    was not paid with much attention since ARJ v 2.50a but now it's
    entirely up to the users.


    IMPORTANT GUIDELINES:

    1. To minimize the adverse impact on business course of ARJ Software,
    Inc., the algorithms to generate ARJ-SECURITY envelopes,
    SECURITY.KEY and REGISTER.DAT/ARJ.KEY files have been left out of
    the source code.

    2. For the same purpose, any attempt to pursue the creation of a
    "compatible" implementation for the aforementioned algorithms will
    be deprecated within this project (however the appearance of such
    algorithms could not be prevented).

    LEGAL STATUS: The development of this project was governed by laws of
    Russian Federation. The open-source release was made available under
    the terms and conditions of GNU General Public License. ARJ Software
    Russia is a non-profit group with no affiliation with ARJ Software, Inc.

    Sincerely yours - Andrew
    * Crossposted in ARJ
    * Crossposted in RU.COMPRESS

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