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From: chrisl@caen.engin.umich.edu (Chris Lang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: PkaWare/PkaZip
Message-ID: <49220131.db93@edsel.engin.umich.edu>
Date: 11 Mar 90 16:54:00 GMT
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Reply-To: chrisl@caen.engin.umich.edu (Chris Lang)
Organization: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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In article <90031103231016@masnet.uucp> jonathan.forbes@canremote.uucp (JONATHAN FORBES) writes:
>Besides, SFX files take up more space, and everyone has ZIP, anyway.

Speak for yourself.  A lot of people don't have ZIP and a good many of the
ones who do have it don't like it.  OTOH, it IS a better alternative than
self-extracting stuff.  I am still totally unclear as to why people put things
into self-extracting archives; all it seems to do is add to the file size.  I
mean, I can type "zoo x// SpamZoo" as quickly as I can type "SpamSFX", and I
have a lot more control over what happens with the ZOO (ARC, LZH, ZIP) file,
as well.

 -Chris
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