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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: lharc on UNIX (was Re: But is there a ZIP? (Was "unzip for unix?"))
Message-ID: <1990Sep15.202211.24997@uwasa.fi>
Date: 15 Sep 90 20:22:11 GMT
References: <OTTO.90Sep14114153@tukki.jyu.fi> <1990Sep14.183442.5007@sj.ate.slb.com> <1990Sep14.212200.6207@looking.on.ca> <58772@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
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In article <58772@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante) writes:
>brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) <1990Sep14.212200.6207@looking.on.ca> :
>| A *zip* for unix would be used to create archives for ms-dos users in ZIP
>| format, and I suppose to create archives for unix users using the unix
>| unzip, although that's far less common a use.
>
>I use the "lharc" program to archive and compress files on various unix
>machines, specifically to manage related groups of data files which I

(The following is just an observation, not an opinnion on which
archiver should be used).  The fact that we do not have zip for unix
is inconvenient, since there is one feature in zip which is useful
in moderating an ftp site.  This is the fact that the datestamp of a
.zip can very easily be set to be the same as the date of the latest
file within the acrhive.  This information is nice to have in
maintaining archives, because it is easy to see which files are
recent, which not.  The problem with this approach is that the file
has to be first transferred to a PC, and then back, but that is
necessary for testing and virus checking anyway. 

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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