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- Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1989 11:41 MST
- Message-Id: <KPETERSEN.12473015745.BABYL@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL>
- Sender: KPETERSEN@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL
- From: Keith Petersen <w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL>
- To: Info-IBMPC@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL, Info-HZ100@RADC-TOPS20.ARPA
- Cc: Info-Xmodem@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL
- Subject: DSZ Feb. 16 version now available from Simtel20
-
- I just obtained the latest version of DSZ from Chuck Forsberg's BBS.
- The files are available from Simtel20 as:
-
- Filename Type Bytes CRC
-
- Directory PD1:<MSDOS.ZMODEM>
- DSZ0216.ARC BINARY 82436 777AH <--COM vers w/docs
- DSZ0216X.ARC BINARY 46599 A8D7H <--EXE version
-
- [**editorial mode on**]
-
- Please note that we continue to convert DSZEXE.ZOO to DSZdateX.ARC
- because Simtel20 does not have any way to test ZOO archives on the
- mainframe. I hope Chuck Forsberg will rethink his distribution
- requirements in the interests of consistancy, especially in the light
- of the fact that the new ZIP archive system beats both ARC and ZOO in
- efficiency. Example: DSZEXE.ZOO when repackaged into a ZIP archive is
- 8,000 bytes smaller! Don't misunderstand, I am not advocating that we
- change to ZIP archives until mainframe versions of ZIP are available.
- My point is that continuing to distribute the EXE version of DSZ in a
- ZOO archive is beating a dead horse. Both ARC and ZOO are destined to
- become obsolete.
-
- It's a real shame that the EXE version of DSZ isn't more widely
- distributed. It's significantly faster than the COM version when
- using a 9600 bps modem with the serial interface locked at 19200. If
- you have no interst in running DSZ under DesqView/DoubleDOS or a LAN
- which requires the file locking features of DSZ.COM, you should really
- be using DSZ.EXE for maximum transfer speed.
-
- [end of editorial]
-
- --Keith Petersen
- Maintainer of the CP/M & MSDOS archives at wsmr-simtel20.army.mil [26.0.0.74]
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