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From: cur022@zodiac.ukc.ac.uk (Bob Eager)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Binaries and which packing (Was Re: xx vs. uu)
Message-ID: <14727@zodiac.ukc.ac.uk>
Date: 15 Feb 90 09:01:14 GMT
References: <1513@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <1990Feb14.134810.8305@uwasa.fi>
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
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In article <1990Feb14.134810.8305@uwasa.fi>, ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK) writes:
> 2) We now have unzip available for unix, which means that file
> integrity can be tested without first having to transfer to PC the
> way it used to be.  Also .zip files can now be unpacked under unix. 

Remember there are other systems apart from MS-DOS and UNIX; how about
the VMS and IBM communities? Perhaps the programs could be ported, but they
need to be available, working, on those systems before day 1.

ZOO already works on VMS, MS-DOS and UNIX at least. It may not be the most
fantastically efficient, but notice (for example) that there are already
.ZIP archives around that need the *latest* PKUNZIP. At least all ZOO
archives are the same...
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