Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!logicon.arpa!trantor.harris-atd.com!x102c!wcurtiss From: wcurtiss@x102c.harris-atd.com (Curtiss WC 67625) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: xx vs. uu Message-ID: <3219@trantor.harris-atd.com> Date: 15 Feb 90 16:51:14 GMT References: <1513@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <493@sixhub.UUCP> Sender: news@trantor.harris-atd.com Reply-To: wcurtiss@x102c.ess.harris.com Organization: Harris Corporation ESS, Melbourne, Florida Lines: 22 In article <493@sixhub.UUCP> davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes: > > Many people indicated that they wanted to be able to unpack the >archives on UNIX machines and read the docs before taking the time to >download to a DOS machine. That leaves arc and zoo. zoo was voted by the >readers last year and doesn't ask for money. Now that PKARC is (mostly) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I think the above is an important consideration. I don't like the implications of the a newsgroup requiring the use of a program which costs money. Yes, I know that you don't HAVE to register your copy of some-other-archiver, but you should in the interest of shareware. And for all the people who extract the binaries on their UN*X machine (myself, included): Now that ZIP, and LHarc have been ported to UN*X, why don't we port one of the various this-archiver-to-that-archiver programs. Such a program could be added to an automatic extraction script, and you can have whatever kind of archive desired. And we'll all be happy? Maybe? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- William Curtiss 407/984-6383 | "The only good martyr Harris GISD, Melbourne, FL 32902 | is a dead martyr." Internet: wcurtiss%x102c@ess.harris.com | <-- New address