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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: which archiver/compresser and encoder/decoder to use?
Message-ID: <535@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 24 Feb 90 15:11:02 GMT
References: <36517@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <7273.25e41a7a@dit.ie>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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In article <7273.25e41a7a@dit.ie> alawlor@dit.ie (Aengus Lawlor) writes:

| Given that it's PC only code, the UNIX compatibility issue must be weighed
| against this bandwidth saving.

  As soon as the free UNIX version of zip is available I'll take a look
at it. Until then, the ability to check the archive on UNIX, to do a
directory and check the dates, to extract a single doc file and read it,
represents a strong reason to stay where we are.

  We could always go to ffark (fast-fast-archiver) and compress, which
gives better compression in virtually every case. I don't plan on that,
either.
-- 
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
    sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX
    moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc
"Getting old is bad, but it beats the hell out of the alternative" -anon