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From: honp9@jetson.uh.edu (Jason L. Tibbitts III)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: HP-48SX chip.zip and pubdom.zip
Message-ID: <7017.26fe13ed@jetson.uh.edu>
Date: 24 Sep 90 19:10:53 GMT
References: <1990Sep18.092233.21526@laguna.ccsf.caltech.edu> <2421@bambam.UUCP> <1990Sep22.231650.6873@wuarchive.wustl.edu> <1990Sep22.235856.8106@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
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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:
> 
>>> Please use the compress file format whenever possible. I know there
>>> is a problem, as this program will only pack one file per archive,
>>> but it is the most widely available file compressor.
> 
> It's not a problem---you just use tar to make one file out of several files
> and directories and then use compress on that.  The standard suffix is
> ..tar.Z.  This is the way nearly everything is compressed on ftp sites with
> Unix software.
> 
>>> 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.

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> I have uploaded chip.tar.Z and pubdom.tar.Z to gmuvax2.gmu.edu in new/hp48sx
> and to hpcvaaz.cv.hp.com in pub.

Wonderful.  So now a user of a filesystem that doesn't like multiple periods in
filenames (like VMS and MSDOS) will have problems.

ZOO gives reasonable compression and is pretty much universally available.  You
don't have to go thruogh multiple steps to get the files extracted.  And
besides, Tar and Compress aren't very prevalent on personal computers, where
most of the HP48 hookups are anyway.
  
> Mark Adler
> madler@piglet.caltech.edu
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