Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sample.eng.ohio-state.edu!purdue!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!goehring From: goehring@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Scott Goehring) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.archives Subject: Re: Archiver choices at an FTP site (garbo) (Was Re: Compressors) Message-ID: Date: 26 Jun 91 16:19:28 GMT References: <10002@discus.technion.ac.il> <1991Jun24.181748.12705@uwasa.fi> <15714@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> Sender: news@mentor.cc.purdue.edu Reply-To: goehring@mentor.cc.purdue.edu Organization: Purdue University Computing Center Lines: 29 In article <15714@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU>, millerje@handel.CS.ColoState.Edu (Jeff Miller) writes: >I don't see any reason why why all the files at an FTP site would >have to be changed... keep the existing files in their current >archive format, and for any new files, or updates of old files, use >the "approved" format. >I do feel that "lha" is quite revolutionary, since it has amazing >compression ratios, and that it is completely free... no shareware, >no licensing, etc. It is also for this reason, that I feel ARJ would >not be appropriate, as if I remember correctly (I don't use ARJ), it >is shareware with a required fee. another point to consider is compatibility with other systems. many of us use UNIX systems to build and tear down archives for whatever reason (i, for example, like to print documentation from UNIX instead of from PCs, since UNIX actually has a functional print spooler). i see no point in downloading the archive to a PC, exploding it, and reuploading the files to my UNIX account, especially since i probably used my UNIX account to ftp the file in the first place, and since this here sequent blows away every PC i've ever used. therefore, i'd like to have files be bundled in some format i can unbundle on my UNIX machine. a lot of these cutting edge archivers don't exist in UNIX implementations yet. -- Scott Goehring | There's a lot of overweight people in the goehring@mentor.cc.purdue.edu | world, many are arguably food-addicts. Shall | we outlaw chocolate cake? | -- Mike Percy, in alt.censorship