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<<On Sat, 13 May 2000 23:46:36 -0700, Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org> said:

> 	I concur. I've always wondered why (info-)zip hasn't enjoyed more
> popularity in the unix world. I used it extensively back when I ran
> OS/2, and it has a lot of nice features. 

Because post-archive-compression compresses better, if the contents of
the files are similar.  Also because people have a 25-year history
with `tar', `ar', and similar UNIX programs; the `zip' and `unzip'
programs have a non-intuitive command-line syntax, by comparison.

-GAWollman



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