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From: a864@mindlink.UUCP (Jono Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: which archiver/compresser and encoder/decoder to use?
Message-ID: <1144@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 15 Feb 90 15:41:23 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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> rwh writes:
> 
> Msg-ID: <1990Feb15.205313.7334@me.toronto.edu>
> Posted: 16 Feb 90 01:53:14 GMT
> 
> Org.  : none
> Person: Russ Herman
> 
> One advantage to PKZIP amd ZOO that no-one has mentioned yet is their
> ease of handling nested directories.  ZIP is a tad easier because you
> can do it all from the command line, but a one-liner invoking 'find'
> generates the file list for zoo aI..  Until we see a ZIP-clone, freeware,
> for all the non-PC world, I'm in favour of staying with ZOO (even though
> the first thing I do after D/L is convert to ZIP).
> 
> Russ Herman
> INTERNET: rwh@me.utoronto.ca  UUCP: ..uunet!utai!me!rwh


LHARC also handles nested subdirectories quite easily -rp to archive I believe
and -r when extracting.
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