Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!nic.MR.NET!umn-cs!ns!ddb From: ddb@ns.UUCP (David Dyer-Bennet) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: ARC/ZOO/ZIP for comp.binaries.ibm.pc Message-ID: <1175@ns.UUCP> Date: 28 Feb 89 23:32:18 GMT References: <1325@csm9a.UUCP> Organization: Terrabit Software Lines: 23 In-reply-to: japplega@csm9a.UUCP's message of 26 Feb 89 21:12:46 GMT Joe Applegate writes: :The decision of whether to embrace one format or another based on availability :of processing tools on UNIX is rediculous! DOS programs should be processed :with DOS tools. I disagree very strongly. I regularly use the unix version of arc to test the integrity of an archive before transmitting it to my dos system. I often use it to extract the documentation, to determine if I *wish* to transmit the archive to my dos system. I also use it to assemble source code from the net into convenient bundles for my dos system (which is irrelevant to posting format in c.b.i.p, but relevant to my interest in unix copies of my favorite dos archivers). I would be quite unhappy if the c.b.i.p postings were in a format I couldn't manipulate on unix. (Anybody in MN got a version of zoo I could build on a sun?) -- David Dyer-Bennet, ddb@ns.network.com or ...!{rutgers!dayton | amdahl!ems | uunet!rosevax}!umn-cs!ns!ddb or ddb@Lynx.MN.Org, ...{amdahl,hpda}!bungia!viper!ddb or Fidonet 1:282/341.0, (612) 721-8967 hst/2400/1200/300