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From: perand@nada.kth.se (Per Andersson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: lharc/arc/zoo/compress
Keywords: archives
Message-ID: <2721@draken.nada.kth.se>
Date: 13 Jan 90 15:18:46 GMT
References: <47f0d326.81da@digital.sps.mot.com> <21701@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <21723@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>
Reply-To: perand@nada.kth.se (Per Andersson)
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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In article <21723@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> rs0@beach.cis.ufl.edu () writes:
>In article <21701@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> cr1@beach.cis.ufl.edu 
>I would _really love to see a super-smart program that can use any of
>these formats, and allow you to unarchive _anything_.  Then the choice
>of archive format would become less of a problem in the present and
>the future.

And of course it should work under Unix, BSD+SysV, Amiga, ST, PC and mac.
This is unfortunately an utopia. But things is getting better, Zoo works
on all these systems, arc does, and lharc at least works on BSD, ST and PC.
Then you can build e menysystem around them to get your program. If this
supersmart program had been done, there would be enough ccordination not
to have umpteen compression formats.

Just ramblin' on, Per
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Per Andersson
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
perand@admin.kth.se, @nada.kth.se