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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: File Compression/Archiving
Message-ID: <1990Jul28.234555.17525@uwasa.fi>
Date: 28 Jul 90 23:45:55 GMT
References: <3200006@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <11946@hydra.gatech.EDU>
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In article <11946@hydra.gatech.EDU> scott@kong.UUCP (Scott Coulter) writes:
>To the extent of my knowledge, pak210 is a completely different critter
>from the many .arc-type programs, and uses strictly .pak extensions.
>There is often confusion due to pkpak, which is a .arc manipulator.

Not quite. Pak also handles .arced files besides .pak files.

   It is quite an interesting and useful list that was gathered
here.  The ones with most relevance for us c.b.i.p.d users are .zoo
(used in Bill's) postings, .arc and .zip (and .lzh to a lesser
extent) used by many ftp sites.  The relative merits and dismerits
of the alternative archivers have been debated here quite often,
sometimes even heatedly. 
   If you get confused with all the different methods, acquire an
archive shell.  Shez (currently shez56) is a very good one for this
purpose. 

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Prof. Timo Salmi        (Moderating at anon. ftp site 128.214.12.3)
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun