Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 20:09:35 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@tutopia.com> To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: distfiles no longer on 4.0 CDs Message-ID: <38FFAA4E.669BF08F@tutopia.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004191832120.74915-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> <38FE7F1D.59E9B386@tutopia.com> <v04220806b524707d4321@[195.238.1.121]> <38FF2826.FF096EDE@tutopia.com> <v04220800b5253e078186@[195.238.1.121]>
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Brad Knowles wrote:
>
...
> My understanding is that the future distribution format is going
> to be "zip", which can archive and compress at the same time. This
> allows direct transparent access to the internal files, instead of
> having to do two separate operations. While I have a personal
> knee-jerk animosity towards anything related to DOS, I have to admit
> that this has a lot going for it.
>
I had no idea they were planning to actually change the format..cool!
ZIP/UNZIP doesn't sound bad at all TBH. In my DOS days I used lha{rc},
but the good pkware guys improved their product and it's better now. I
haven't compared them lately though.
cheers,
Pedro.
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