Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!bwdls58!mlord From: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: lharc on UNIX (was Re: But is there a ZIP? (Was "unzip for unix?")) Message-ID: <4376@bwdls58.UUCP> Date: 18 Sep 90 16:27:46 GMT References: <1990Sep14.183442.5007@sj.ate.slb.com> <1990Sep14.212200.6207@looking.on.ca> <58772@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <1990Sep15.202211.24997@uwasa.fi> Sender: mlord@bwdls58.UUCP Reply-To: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord) Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada Lines: 20 In article <1990Sep15.202211.24997@uwasa.fi> ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK) writes: >(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. Errr.. but yes, it must be transferred to the PC for testing/virus check, but NOT the other way again! You've already got it on the UNIX, so why double one's time transferring it back again. My apologies, I couldn't resist. -- ___Mark S. Lord__________________________________________ | ..uunet!bnrgate!mlord%bmerh724 | Climb Free Or Die (NH) | | MLORD@BNR.CA Ottawa, Ontario | Personal views only. | |________________________________|________________________|