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From: dahlstr@hus.chalmers.se (Gunnar Dahlstrom)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: archiving under MSDOS and UNIX
Keywords: arichive, Unix, MSDOS
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Date: 20 Dec 90 20:33:02 GMT
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In article <11784@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> georgm@danae.atmos.colostate.edu (Georg Mayr) writes:
>My problem:
>
>I need to archive files under UNIX, but then transfer the archive to MSDOS
>and be able to uncompress it there.
>
>
>My question:
>
>Are there programs that produce archives that are compatible for both
>operating systems (i.e. can handle the difference between line-feed under
>UNIX and line-feed+carriage return in MSDOS, something that eg ZOO cannot
>do - at least not the version I got).
>
>COMPRESS isn't suitable for my purpose since it just compresses single files
>without binding them together to a large archive.

Why not use COMPRESS/UNCOMPRESS and TAR together, i have both of those program for MS-DOS and UNIX.

You can find does program at SIMTEL i think.


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				Gunnar Dahlstrom
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