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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Tools for non-Unix (tm) users
Message-ID: <1991May18.172506.7986@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 18 May 91 17:25:06 GMT
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In article <F5DB71E520003432@gacvx2.gac.edu> HCLIMER%UTCVM.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Harold Climer) writes:
>The $199.00 was mentioned in the original article for a software package of
>UNIX tools. I already have PKZIP and PKUNZIP that is why I mentioned it in
> inquiry. Also since the node at UTCVM does not have FTP direct ability
>and I don't have the programs to uuencode and deuuencode programs and I do
>have the above mentioned programs , I just thought I'd ask. Also it was my
>impression that certain archived files    h .zoo and .tar were un-archivable
>only under UNIX ,and I opertate under DOS 4.01.

I assume that Harold is referring to the MKS Toolkit (which is
excellent).  However, many of the standard Unix tools are available free.

PD versions of uuencode and uudecode are readily available.  ZOO and ARC
run under several operating systems (I use them on the PC and Atari TOS), 
as does LZH (but I hear compatability complaints about this one).  As
for tar, I believe that there are PD versions.

By the way, a caution about the Unix compress.  MKS uncompress is 14
bits and cannot handle most Unix compressed files (which are usually 16
bits), but there are PD uncompress programs which do fine.  Why MKS
cannot do as well as freeware in this area baffles me.
-- 
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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