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From: davison@drivax.DRI (Wayne Davison)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: PKZIP filenames (was Re: Bugs in v0.90 of PKZIP...)
Message-ID: <4397@drivax.DRI>
Date: 14 Mar 89 20:33:37 GMT
References: <129.241A07B5@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Reply-To: davison@drivax.UUCP (Wayne Davison)
Organization: Digital Research, Inc.
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In article <129.241A07B5@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
>- If an illegal filename greater than 8 characters in length is
>  specified to PKZIP...

I certainly hope that this doesn't mean that the PKZIP archive definition is
locked into filenames of 8 characters, filetypes of 3 characters and exactly
one period. There are other computers out here that have a much more general
definition of a filename and I'd hate to use some future port of PKZIP if it
did not allow more flexibility in the filename than ARC does.

Personally, I'd prefer to see zoo enhanced to use a more efficient algorithm
rather than adopting a new archiver package.  I am not sure if this would be
something that Rahul would enjoy doing to zoo, though, since it is currently
free of multiple compressions and incompatibilities with older versions.
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 Wayne Davison                                        ...amdahl!drivax!davison