Whoa Guys! This is FREE to all HP3000 customers to use between their
vendors to distribute software over the web FREELY! Joe Longtin's
comments, " Now you can download it FREE for a limited time!" should
have read, "Now ISV's can download it FREE for a limited time!". The
intent is to get the user community to have a reliable tool and cost
effect method of distributing software freely and accurately and to
motivate their ISV's into doing so.

As far as the comments about LZW, well......

LZW does not understand the needs of the HP3000 community.  It is a PC
tool that has been ported to the 3000, just like tar, with the same
problems.

Quark stores what is requested.  If it is a symbolic link, the symbolic
link is stored, not the file pointed to.  This is an important
distinction. Quark handles FIFO's equally as well.  LZW ignores them.

Quark is not hamstrung with such a small vision.

It handles all the files under MPE without difficulty.  This includes
storing relevant Group and Account information, so that they can be
created correctly when needed. What we mean here is that the standard
LZW and MPE STORE restore DEFAULT accounting information not what is
currently set in the account today including passwords. .  MPE
STORE/RESTORE does not do this, nor does LZW.

Quark allows for indirect files, which themselves contain a list of
files to archive.  For archiving a consistent file list, which is not
easily grouped by wildcarding, this is an invaluable option.

Quark does not burden the user with a choice of either an unreadable
display format, or effectively no useful information (terse only lists
files it recognizes, skips files which it does not and does not show
them).  When QUARK gets an error accessing a file, the archive is not
trashed, and archiving continues..  This cannot be said for LZW.

Quark reports its success to the CI environment by using JCW's so that
an enclosing XEQ or UDC can confirm the success of the archive
creation/extraction process.  This is some that even STORE does not do.
When one uses STORE, you must check the standard list, to verify that
all files requested were actually stored.  HP does not consider it an
error condition when a file cannot be stored, and does not report it to
the CI environment (We verified this with HP on, Feb 28, 2001).

John Saylor
Quest Software
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www.quest.com


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