From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 16 11:29:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA04643 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 11:29:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from psiint.com (vv.psiint.com [204.189.53.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA04604 Tue, 16 Jan 1996 11:29:01 -0800 (PST) Received: by psiint.com (8.6.12/4.03) id LAA15101; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 11:28:34 -0800 Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 11:28:33 -0800 (PST) From: Dave Walton To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FBSD 2.1 In-Reply-To: <22445.821618434@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Sun, 14 Jan 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > The world is still waiting for a replacement for tar/cpio/... that > allows compression, random access to files and isn't named `zip'.. :-) I dunno, maybe this is a silly question, but what exactly is wrong with a replacement for tar/cpio/... that allows compression, random access to files and *IS* named 'zip'? Dave ========================================================================== David Walton Programmer PSI INTERNATIONAL, Inc. email: dwalton@psiint.com 190 South Orchard #C200 Fax :(707)451-6484 Vacaville, CA 95688 Phone:(707)451-3503 ==========================================================================