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From: joseph@valnet.UUCP (Joseph P. Hillenburg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: gravattack.ZAP
Keywords: remove from abcfd20
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Date: 21 Oct 90 10:08:06 GMT
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Bill.Frandsen@samba.acs.unc.edu (Bill Frandsen) writes:

> After obtaining the file "gravattack.ZAP" from abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov,
> I un-zapped it (zap_1.41 is also in the /incoming/amiga dir on abcfd20)
> and noted that there are proprietary Commodore Dos 1.3 files included
> in the archive.  Since Tad is worried about copyright infrindgement
> (as he well should be), this archive should be removed, because it is 
> violating Commodore's distribution status on it's DOS files.
> 
> Also, the archive contains 3 duplications of the main file!  One is
> exactly the same, and another is a .ARC of the file.  This is redundant
> and is wasting space, and wastes net bandwidth when FTPing.
> 
> If the necessary files (about 3 or 4 of em) were re-lzh'd the archive 
> should be short, i.e. 150k rather than 400+k.  And this would remove
> the files that everyone has anyway in their system disk.
> 
> --

I don't think this is a copyright infringement since the target audience 
already has these files. Therefore, I think someone should go through and 
CLEAN UP the archive istead of deleteing it, and then have a file 
teelling us what file we need and where they should go. I also think that 
it should be re-archived with LHArc 1.21 since LHArc is easier on users 
and far more flexible. (It also supports directories)

-Joseph Hillenburg

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