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From: rogers@iris.ucdavis.edu (Brewski Rogers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Self Extracting Files (Re: PkaWare/PkaZip)
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Date: 11 Mar 90 23:17:10 GMT
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I think the main reason no self-extracting archiver ever caught on is that
you don't need to get the program to de-archive your file, and so when
it comes time to archive a file, you find you don't have the self-extracting
archiver, and just use ZOO instead.

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