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From: roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: How best to distribute files?
Message-ID: <1990Jan11.004352.5011@phri.nyu.edu>
Date: 11 Jan 90 00:43:52 GMT
Organization: Public Health Research Institute
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	This is only marginally related to tcp-ip, but I couldn't think of a
better place, so here goes.  I'm setting up an anonymous ftp server to
distribute various bits of software.  Much of it will be in the form of (L-Z)
compressed tar files.  I expect the majority of the people using the server
will have Unix, but not all and I don't want to needlessly shut out those who
don't.  So, my question is, how universal is this format?  Are there readily
available programs for VMS, Macintosh, MS-DOS, etc, that can read tar.Z
files?  Is there some other more universal format I should consider?
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