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-See the file work/Arc521.doc for more info .
+This is the ARC File Archive Utility. ARC is used to create and
+maintain file archives. It can automatical compress the files
+being archived. It provides repeated-character compression, dynamic
+Lempel-Zev (LZW) compression, or no compression. ARC was originally
+written in 1985. This package also includes marc for merging ARC
+archives.