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- From: roe2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Cave Newt)
- Subject: Re: A note on using PKUNZIP 2.04c with 4DOS and Windows 3.1
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 22:30:25 GMT
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- Alex.Strasheim@launchpad.unc.edu (Alex Strasheim) writes:
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- >I don't know what would be involved in making arj the new standard format
- >for an ftp site like garbo, or how the net.community would respond to such
- >an action. But in the long run, I think we'd all be better off using arj
- >instead of zip as a standard. Pkware has dropped the ball.
-
- ...just in time for Info-ZIP to pick it up! :-)
-
- But seriously, as many other people have noted, ARJ does not exist
- outside of MS-DOS and it is therefore essentially useless as an ftp-
- site utility. Zip exists on many platforms, UnZip on even more, and
- still more are currently in the works.
-
- Btw, they're freeware, not public domain. Big distinction, at least
- in the US.
-
- Greg Roelofs (Info-ZIP)
-