ARC’s “Trimmed” compression scheme

ARC is a file compression and archiving utility that was in use from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, mainly on DOS computers. It was developed by a small company named System Enhancement Associates. The last major version of ARC was 7.x, first released in late 1989 or early 1990. In v7, ARC became part …

Win32 I/O character encoding supplement 2 – setlocale enhancement

This is part of a series of post on using Unicode in Windows command-line applications. Here's the first post. Sometime in 2018, some functions in the Windows 10 C runtime system, and related development SDKs, were enhanced to support UTF-8. This feature is enabled by calling the setlocale function. For reference, Microsoft's current documentation of …