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From: CMH117@psuvm.psu.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: xx vs. uu
Message-ID: <90052.020949CMH117@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 21 Feb 90 07:09:49 GMT
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In article <195@falkor.UUCP>, heiby@falkor.UUCP (Ron Heiby) says:
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>I have *never* had problems with zoo.  Further, I *strongly* favor
>use of an archive format which can be manipulated on most common UNIX
>derived systems, including both BSD and System V.  Almost all sites
>on Usenet are running some UNIX variant and it is truly convenient to
>be able to extract descriptive information or documentation (to be
>printed on the shared printer) before deciding to download.

Wrong, pal.  I'm personally running VM (as are a lot of other people I know)
and I have at least 4 VAXen around running VMS that are also on InterNet.
I don't have TAR (not the *nix-equivalent, anyway) or compress for VMS or VM;
I don't have even an unZIP; I don't have LHarc; in fact, I don't have jack
shit in the way of portable archivers for *either* system.

Personally, I FTP the little bastards to a PC hard disk and do my dirty work
there.  (LIST is great for viewing documentation.)  My suggestion:  Everyone
should get a PC on InterNet!  [B-) JOKE B-) JOKE B-) JOKE B-) JOKE B-) JOKE]


Virtually,
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