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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Tools for non-Unix (tm) users
Summary: ZIP for non-PC machines?
Message-ID: <1991May15.144037.9206@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 15 May 91 14:40:37 GMT
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In article <48F5A292A0001A3E@gacvx2.gac.edu> HCLIMER%UTCVM.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Harold Climer) writes:
>I was wondering why the programs etc on this net couldn't be crunched   using
>PKZIP ? As you said there are lots of people accessing this net using PC's that
>operate under MS-DOS and not UNIX. Also $199.00 is a lot of money for a poor
>undergraduate. I have uploaded HP48 programs obtained from the HP-BBS and
>uploaded ZIP ed versions to local boards with no trouble.

Unless am mistaken, ZIP only works on the PC.  This means that ZIP
archives cannot be accessed on other systems.  However, there are other
archivers like ZOO, ARC, and (less reliably) LZH that can be accessed on
Unix boxes, Atari ST's, etc., as well as PC's.  So let's use archivers
that we can all use.

What did you spend $199 for?  I missed that point.
-- 
William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2.  Tel. (902)426-1577
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