Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!sun!amdcad!dgcad!dg-rtp!stuff!brownp From: brownp@stuff.rtp.dg.com (Peter Brown) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Archiving programs on Unix (Was Re: help) Message-ID: <1991Apr15.153639.14011@dg-rtp.dg.com> Date: 15 Apr 91 15:36:39 GMT References: <7323@munnari.oz.au> <1991Apr13.050719.8740@uwasa.fi> <1991Apr14.060559.15053@uwasa.fi> Sender: brownp@stuff (Peter Brown) Organization: Data General Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC Lines: 25 I have no problem with the telling people where something is approach (instead of giving them a direct answer) it makes people think a little. However, isn't it a little silly to refer someone who is asking about unarchiving programs to an ARCHIVED faq file??? |> >In article <1991Apr13.050719.8740@uwasa.fi> ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes: |> : |> >>Your questions sond like you would well benefit from first reading |> >>the Frequently Asked Questions collection /pc/ts/tsfaq19.arc. Below |> >>is how to go about it: |> > |> >I had the same question. I searched (maybe not hard enough) one of the |> >ftp sites. There were arc and zoo for unix, but no zip. |> >Does anyone know where it hides? |> |> Then obviously you too would benefit from taking a look at the |> Frequently Asked Questions. There is unzip (and lharc) for Unix. |> As to Unix zip it is not available, but there is work on it. If you |> want more information on the zip situation please see the |> compression newsgroups. There has been a number of messages there |> on the subject lately. |> -- Peter Brown -- Data General Corp. -- email: brownp@stuff.rtp.dg.com My views, thoughts, opinions and spelling errors are definitely my own!