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From: paule@pro-graphics.cts.com (Paul Ermisch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: PkaWare/PkaZip
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Date: 13 Mar 90 07:56:11 GMT
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In-Reply-To: message from chrisl@caen.engin.umich.edu

> I am still totally unclear as to why people put things into self-extracting
> archives;
 
It's the chicken-or-the-egg paradox -- some folks don't have the archive
extraction program required.  We use it for our user group BBS for beginners.
Only the archiving programs are put into a self-executing archive format.
They can download the archive program in .PAK format (the ONLY self-extracting
archive format on Amiga) and have everything they need right away.  
 
This is the only good reason to use such things, IMO.

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