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From: filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us (Bela Lubkin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga zip
Message-ID: <25.filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us>
Date: 11 Sep 89 00:06:07 GMT
References: <1492@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
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In article <1492@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> Jim Wright writes:
>Date: 16-Aug-89  03:20 PM
>From: Sysop
>  To: Harvey Harbicht (X)
[...]
>functions.  I have improved the appearance of the program which required that
>I move to a custom screen rather than opening ZIP on the main workbench
>screen.  This required alot of additional support for user defined colors etc.

What BBS did this stuff come from?  Does this "Sysop" person have an Internet-
reachable address?  Someone tell him that some of us strongly DON'T want an
"improved appearance" or anything like it.  I want a command-line utility like
all the other archivers.  If someone wants a fancy shell around it, one can
easily be written -- as has been done for all the other archivers.  It should
be extra easy if he puts in an AREXX port like he says.

I hope this isn't the guy Phil Katz has doing the "official port"... fooling
around for months making it look [pretty (to him)] ugly.

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