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From: jmerrill@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Jason Merrill)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Binaries and which packing (Was Re: xx vs. uu)
Message-ID: <4455@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 17 Feb 90 21:17:27 GMT
References: <1513@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <1990Feb14.134810.8305@uwasa.fi> <1745@borabora.omni.com> <225@emdeng.Dayton.NCR.COM>
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In article <225@emdeng.Dayton.NCR.COM> btrue@emdeng.UUCP (Barry.True) writes:
>our PCs. It seems that even if you don't have this type of setup it would
>be easier to transfer one archive file from the UNIX system to a PC than a
>whole bunch of smaller binaries after de-archiving them on the UNIX box. As
>I said before, if there is something I'm overlooking, please let me know.

I don't want to transfer the binaries individually to my PC.  I DO want to
look at the documentation on-line before deciding if I WANT the program and
taking the time to download the entire archive.  This is much easier with
ARC, ZOO or LHarc than it is with ZIP or COMPRESS.

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Jason Merrill				jmerrill@jarthur.claremont.edu