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From: DOUG@YSUB.BITNET ("Doug Sewell")
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: How best to distribute files?
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Date: 11 Jan 90 12:47:13 GMT
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There are MSDOS versions of Compress and Tar.  I can't speak for
other operating systems.

An alternative you might consider is 'ZOO' by Rahul Deszi.  This is
similar to ARC, ZIP, and many other common PC bundle-and-compress
programs, but has been ported to Unix, MSDOS, AmigaDos, VM/SP, VMS,
and I-don't-know how many other environments.  If I remember cor-
rectly, one of the requirements for implementations of ZOO (source
in C is available from SIMTEL20) is that files must be compatible
across all implementation platforms.

Doug