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From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: File packaging and compression
Message-ID: <13594@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 6 Oct 88 16:00:32 GMT
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Reply-To: bobmon@iuvax.UUCP (RAMontante)
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jbrown@jato.UUCP (Jordan Brown) writes:
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}I'm considering building a PUBLIC DOMAIN (that means *no* restrictions on
}anything) file packaging and compression program.  I would attempt to
}maintain portability across a wide variety of environments (obviously
}MS-DOS and UNIX; others as appropriate) and would distribute the source
}code.

How about basing your program on the Zoo archive format?  You get to
step into an existing format which already has supporters.  As I said
elsewhere, the format IS public-domain; one of Rahul's specific programs
(the only one that can generate zoo archives, I think) is the only part
that has restrictions.
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