Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!ucbvax!WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL!WANCHO From: WANCHO@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL ("Frank J. Wancho") Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith.z100 Subject: PD LIB Message-ID: Date: 26 Jul 89 21:40:00 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 24 Once a version of PKZIP is available with sources in C for 4.xbsd and SYS V R2/R3 versions of Unix and proven reliable, I will undertake the conversion to a TOPS20 version as I did with ARC. Once that version is proven reliable, we will see about undertaking the task of converting our collections. We will probably not convert the PC/BLUE collection but continue to carry it as-is. If ZIP files appear in new releases, they will be carried as-is without conversion to ARC format. We will not convert the CP/M collections until a CP/M version of at least an UNZIP is available. We will not convert the Macintosh collection. We will not convert the Ada collection, which will be left in ASCII format so that we can continue to make tape copies in ANSI standard label format which does not support 8-bit data. Finally, the mail archives will not be converted. They are presently stored in monthly TOPS20 mail files with the previous years' files compressed. --Frank