Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!bu.edu!rpi!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!vsi1!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Standard archivers (Was: Let's have ONE standard lharc!) Message-ID: <1991Jan29.131055.19551@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 29 Jan 91 13:10:55 GMT References: <1991Jan27.123801.15867@pronto.mh.nl> Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 21 Johan Vromans writes: > Since a good, reliable, portable archiver like zoo or lharc is a very > valuable tool for the UseNet society, how about trying to start > coordinated efforts to obtain such a tool. The currently existing zoo > and lharc programs may be a good start, their creators might wish to > join (or lead?) the team. > A dedicated newgroup or maling-list would be the first step.. Please feel free to use comp.sys.amiga.datacomm for such a discussion; archiving, compression, and data sharing techniques are all explicitly part of its charter, and are all reasonably platform independent questions, by their very nature. /// It's Amiga /// for me: why Kent, the man from xanth. \\\/// settle for \XX/ anything less? -- Convener, COMPLETED comp.sys.amiga grand reorganization.