Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!maytag!mks.com!andy From: andy@mks.com (Andy Toy) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Encoding and compression for cbip (Was: xx vs. uu) Message-ID: <1990Feb20.164019.20116@mks.com> Date: 20 Feb 90 16:40:19 GMT References: <1513@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <52155@bu.edu.bu.edu> <466@umrisca.usenet.umr.edu> Reply-To: andy@mks.com (Andy Toy) Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Lines: 16 In article <466@umrisca.usenet.umr.edu> jmd@umree.UUCP (Jim Dumser) writes: >But you forget -- we are talking about cbip here, not csu. These programs >will generally be for DOS systems, where ZIP and LHArc do exist. Also, >there are un-arcing programs for both that run under Unix so people can test >the integrity of the archive before downloading it. O.k., but I bet that most of the systems maintaining archives and from which the postings are assembled are *NOT* DOS systems. As a matter of fact, the infamous simtel20 is a DECsystem running TOPS-20. I don't know about LHARC, but there is definitely no UNZIP programme for UNICES other than the BSD flavour. -- Andy Toy, Mortice Kern Systems Inc., Internet: andy@mks.com 35 King Street North, Waterloo, UUCP: uunet!watmath!mks!andy Ontario, CANADA N2J 2W9 Phone: 519-884-2251 FAX: 519-884-8861