From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Apr 20 18: 7:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (bachue.usc.unal.edu.co [168.176.3.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF89B37B5FB for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 18:07:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from giffunip@tutopia.com) Received: from tutopia.com ([216.226.229.138]) by bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA4433 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 20:06:17 -0400 Message-ID: <38FFAA4E.669BF08F@tutopia.com> Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 20:09:35 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Organization: Universidad Nacional de Colombia X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: distfiles no longer on 4.0 CDs References: <38FE7F1D.59E9B386@tutopia.com> <38FF2826.FF096EDE@tutopia.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message