Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ukma!s.ms.uky.edu!chaney From: chaney@ms.uky.edu (Dan Chaney) Newsgroups: comp.compression Subject: Re: PKZIP for UNIX Message-ID: Date: 7 Apr 91 21:00:47 GMT References: <1991Apr5.091653.17820@unixg.ubc.ca> <1991Apr05.220029.24394@looking.on.ca> Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences Lines: 26 brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes: >Is the desire for (PK)ZIP for unix a desire for a compressor that can >easily make files to go to DOS systems, or a desire for a better >compressor for Unix? I believe the desire stems from PKZIP's popularity among the PC world. Actually, I know it does. PC people will post files in the PKZIP format that I would very much like to have on my Unix system. Carting things over to a DOS machine for the abilities of one program seems a little ridiculous. Thus, having a PKZIP-type program for Unix would be a (tm) Good Thing. >There is, of course, already things like ARC and ZOO for Unix that have >dos equivalents, and of course compress for DOS, although most people do >not seem to have it. And LHARC and variants. Exactly. There are lots of these programs that started on Unix and were ported to DOS. Perhaps backwash dictates a few port the other way? *shrug* -dan -- -- Daniel Chaney -- -- postmaster, newsguy, main archiver for ms.uky.edu (Univ of KY Math Sci) -- -- {uunet and the like}!ukma!chaney chaney@ms.uky.edu chaney@ukma.BITNET -- -- "I'll have time enough for sleep when I'm dead and in the ground" --