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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: HP-48SX chip.zip and pubdom.zip
Summary: archivers exist other than those mentioned
Message-ID: <1990Sep23.125729.2507@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 23 Sep 90 12:57:29 GMT
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Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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In article <1990Sep22.235856.8106@nntp-server.caltech.edu> madler@piglet.caltech.edu (Mark Adler) writes:
>
>Povl H. Pedersen, hp48sx@wuarchive.wustl.edu (HP48SX Archive Maintainer)
>writes:
>
>>> If you need to create a multi-file archive, then please use ZOO, as
>>> this program is also available on a very big range of platforms.
>
>"Available" means you have to find it and get it, whereas tar and compress
>are already there on Unix systems.  There is no compresser/archiver that
>comes with DOS for PC's, but I just go on the (incorrect) assumption that
>everyone has Phil Katz's excellent ZIP and UNZIP.  Also, unzip is "available"
>for Unix and soon zip will be too.

A couple of comments on this.  For one, there is a program called booz
which is very portable and which extracts zoo archives.  It is a small
package in C and easier to compile than the full zoo package.  It lists
and extracts zoo archives, but does not create or modify them.

There are several compress programs for MS-DOS.  The MKS compress only
supports 14 bits, but I have a couple of 16 bit compresses that work
fine.  There is also a very small zcat extractor, but I haven't tried it
since compress works (but I have source).

If anyone needs source for booz or zcat, or the DOS compress.exe
program, send mail to bill@biomel.uucp.


-- 
William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2.  Tel. (902)426-1577
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