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From: roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: CheckTD, final author comments
Keywords: Shareware
Message-ID: <4XqmR2w163w@cybrspc>
Date: 26 Oct 90 03:45:14 GMT
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Organization: Villa CyberSpace, Minneapolis, MN
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mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:

> roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail) writes:
> > files into individual directories, I then had to rename all the info
> > files before I could repack the whole assortment into a ZIPfile.
> 
> Eh?  Since when does ZIP not handle subdirectories?

Of course it does... but it's less than convenient to store them for a
collection of this type. (BTW, I ended up tossing the whole thing after
inspection)

> > A collection such as this is much easier to handle if you needn't take
> > embedded pathnames into account.
> 
> Nonsense.  Users should get used to unpacking things with "x//" or
> "-d" (pick an archiver...); not storing subdirectories was a
> shortcoming of the original ARC that we needn't propogate any farther
> than necessary.

Agreed, where subdirectories make sense. IMHO, this collection of
programs didn't rate a subdir structure, especially since the programs
weren't likely to stay in those subdirs. (if I had kept them, they'd
have gone into my \tools dir) Where they're needed (like, say, Waffle),
I certainly store subdirs.

Also, please note that I tend to store things in a form somewhat
friendly to novices, since many of these things get passed along to
novices. Usenet isn't the world, and many users are not as skilled as
those of us who populate the net.

> > BTW, SHEZ was not able to see the path information in your Zoofile,
> 
> I'd guess because it uses the novice-mode commands, instead of the
> expert-mode commands.

SHEZ opens and scans the archive directly when you 'look' inside one.
The archiver in question isn't spawned until an actual extract is
performed.

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