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- Gzip is avaliable on all the mentioned platforms and since we are talking HFV
- files (one single file) archiving multiple files isn't important. Zips duel
- purpose is exactly what makes it less efficiant. I really don't want to get into
- an arguement on the list about it (and I agree LHA is a good one as well), it
- just seems since of the three platforms Executor is made for TWO of them are
- unix and ONE is DOS. Since we are using someone elses FTP site and there is a
- DOS gzip it just seemed like a kind thing to do (since it would save space and
- download/upload time)and not that difficult for for folks to handle since you
- could put a small paragraph in the ftp site readme that prints when you change
- into a directory or some such.........
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- Anyways Later,
- Sean
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- P.S. Weren't MFM/RLE hard drives a standard PC item once upon a time? Don't see
- them much any more.........
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- ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________
- Subject: Re: executor-digest V1 #232
- Author: _oscarw (SMTP.OSCARW) at SSWGATE
- Date: 8/3/95 9:05 PM
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- Zip is the standard of personal computer....
- You can compress/decompress *.zip in MSDOS, Amiga, Mac, Unix,
- Apple ][, VAX, .....
- Moreover, it is more easy to handle zip file than Gzip as zip can
- handle a group of files with full/partial path(directory) and delete or
- add a single file to the archive is more easier.
- I prefer zip .....
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- If talking about shareware or freeware or GNU software, I prefer
- lha as it is free and powerful....
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- Yours,
- Thomas
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