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From: weisen@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Neil Weisenfeld)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Which archiver fot c.b.i.p.
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Date: 18 Feb 90 21:56:59 GMT
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If I had my choice I'd say LHARC.  I know its slow, but it compresses very,
very, well.  I'm not sure if it will do subdirs.  If not, I vote for ZIP.

The real reason for this posting, however, is to ask why everyone is against
everything that doesn't run on UNIX and TOPS20.  Isn't this
comp.binaries.IBM.PC?  Personally, I UUDECODE the stuff and then download it
to the P.C.  I WANT it .ARCed or .ZIPed when I send it to the P.C.  Is there
something that I'm missing?  If using an MS-DOS only compression program is
going to deny many people access to c.b.i.p then by all means, use ARC.  I
just don't understand why this is a problem.


Neil
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