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- Subject: Re: PERFPICH.TOS v1.1 posted to a.a
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.055546.12745@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
- From: rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Ryan 'Gozar' Collins)
- Date: 10 Sep 92 05:55:46 -0500
- References: <1992Sep03.202923.16021@convex.com> <10219@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
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- In article <10219@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>, warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison) writes:
- > In <laq50iINNa5e@aludra.usc.edu> baffoni@aludra.usc.edu (Juxtaposer) writes:
- >> Nearly every self-extracting archiver
- >>out there is one that was ported from other systems (ie zip,etc.). And most
- >>of them can still be extracted/viewed as a normal compressed file (ie you can
- >>unzip a zipped .sea on your UNIX host). So using a .sea is not a bad idea.
- > And exactly how are we supposed to know which archiver to try to use on the
- >
- > "PERFPICH.TOS"
- >
- > file? "lha"? "zip"? "zoo"? "lharc"? "arc"? "arj"? "UNTOS"?
-
- That is the problem, that there is no way to distinguish what it
- was archived with, but in his post, he said he used zip. (I know this
- doesn't help the person that goes to atari.archive though.)
-
- > Let's face it, anyone with access to these distributable files will have
- > access to programs to extract them. Adding to the download time by including
- > all the code to un-LHARC or un-PKZIP (UNCOMPRESSED) to all of these Self
- > Extracting Archives is not just a pain in the neck, but also a waste of
- > storage space, bandwidth and time.
- >
- > Let's all use ZOO, LHA, LHARC, ARC, ZIP, TAR, COMPRESS, etc.
- >
- > ie. standard formats that can clearly be extracted on-site.
-
- The added code was a little under 5k. I like sea, just for the fact
- that after it is downloaded, I don't have to worry about if I'm going to
- be able to unarc it or not. I got PERFPICH.TOS from atari.archive, and I
- was able to unzip it just fine on our VMS machine here.
-
- Later.......
-
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