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From: heiby@falkor.UUCP (Ron Heiby)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: ZOO/ARC Discussion
Message-ID: <163@falkor.UUCP>
Date: 2 May 88 04:20:28 GMT
References: <827@uvm-gen.UUCP> <2898@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu>
Reply-To: heiby@mcdchg.UUCP (Ron Heiby)
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Craig Browning (browning@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP) writes:
> We should use the non-squashing format perhaps
> because not everyone has PKARC, but since the PKARC binaries are supposed to
> be posted regularly, maybe even straight PKARC is OK.

Let's not forget that the majority of the systems that are actually on
the Usenet are *not* PCs.  In fact, the majority of them are computers
running a variant of the UNIX operating system.  It would be extremely
nice to standardize on the non-squashing format, so that the arc files
could be inspected on the host UNIX system, the documentation extracted
and printed, etc.  Otherwise, folks like me (and I bet there are a lot
of us) will have to download the arc file, extract the documentation,
upload the documentation back up to the host, and finally print it.  I
really don't think that the small additional compression that squashing
adds is worth the major hassle it would impose.
-- 
Ron Heiby, heiby@mcdchg.UUCP	Moderator: comp.newprod & comp.unix
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