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From: dick@slvblc.UUCP (Dick Flanagan)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Standard format for ARCed files
Message-ID: <1167@slvblc.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 88 02:24:14 GMT
References: <21480@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA> <92500006@convex>
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Reply-To: slvblc!dick@ucscc.UCSC.EDU (Dick Flanagan)
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Organization: SLV Systems Group, Ben Lomond, California
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Summary: You can't be serious
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In article <92500006@convex> loafman@convex.UUCP writes:
> > /* Written 10:12 pm  Mar 14, 1988 by rrodrigu@teknowledge-vaxc.UUCP */
> > Who care whether the UN*X archive program can read them or not??? This is 
> > COMP.BINARIES.IBM.PC, not COMP.UN*X, so whatever you pull off this 
> > board is going to end up on a PC anyway. I vote for the self-extracting 
> > archives over the arced-only files.  I guess it's a vote for whether to
> > use the ZOO or the Phil Katz self extracting archivers.
> 
> I care!  I would like to have the ability to preview the documentation
> in the archive _before_ I tie up phone lines to download it.

I don't believe this conversation is taking place!  Self-extracting
archives???  Programs that must be executed on my PC before I can even
see what they really contain?      ^^^^^^^^

          Here is my wonderful public domain program enhancement
          system.  If you are a programmer, then you really deserve
          this wonderful program.  It is contained in the enclosed
          self-extracting ARC file.  Documentation?  It's in there!
          Source?  It's in there!  So just execute the enclosed
          BIG_JOKE.EXE file and you will get what you deserve.
          Trust me!!!

Gimme a break. . . .

Dick

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