debian man page for marc

MARC(1) 							  LOCAL COMMANDS							   MARC(1)

NAME
       marc - archive merger

SYNOPSIS
       marc tgtarc srcarc [ files ... ]

DESCRIPTION
       Reads files from the arc archive srcarc and add them to the arc archive tgtarc.

HISTORY
       Arc has been in use in the CP/M and MSDOS world for many years.	Thom Henderson developed the original version, but it is important to note
       that arc is based on the file compression theories developed by Huffman, Welch, Knott, Knuth, and many other scientists.  This  implementa-
       tion is based on version 5.21 of the MSDOS program.

BUGS
       Arc  behaves  just  like  the  PC version of the program; all functions of the "usage" display are working.  Full compatibility with PC ARC
       files is maintained, the price for which is that arc doesn't like long filenames, and can only archive files with names of up to 12 charac-
       ters.  It will *sometimes* do The Right Thing with them, but I suggest you put long-winded filenames in a "shar" before arcing them.

       There shouldn't be any problems, (hah!) but if you find any, please send them to me at:

	    hyc@hanauma.jpl.nasa.gov

AUTHORS
       Original MSDOS program by Thom Henderson
       COPYRIGHT(C) 1985-87 by System Enhancement Associates; ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

       Original  Lempel-Zev  code derived from compress 4.0.  Modified to support Squashing by Dan Lanciani (ddl@harvard.edu) Ported from MSDOS by
       Howard Chu, with help from John Gilmore (hoptoad!gnu), James Turner (daisy!turner) and others.

Howard Chu@JPL							    25 Nov 1992 							   MARC(1)