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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
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Subject: Re: Tools for non-Unix (tm) users
Summary: ZIP zips
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Date: 24 May 91 13:06:45 GMT
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In article <131662@unix.cis.pitt.edu> fmgst@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Filip Gieszczykiewicz) quotes me:
>>Unless am mistaken, ZIP only works on the PC.  This means that ZIP
>>archives cannot be accessed on other systems. 
>	Greetings. Not true. Not only do I have UNZIP under UNIX, I
>	also have the source (I'll have to check if there are strings
>	attached ;-) But, it _is_ possible.

Right, I now have unzip running under Unix.  Also, there are several
versions of uncompress running around.
-- 
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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