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Date:      Fri, 13 Feb 1998 19:58:14 -0800 (PST)
From:      Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        install@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: New package scheme, early draft
Message-ID:  <XFMail.980213195814.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
In-Reply-To: <199802140123.RAA05820@dingo.cdrom.com>

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On 14-Feb-98 Mike Smith wrote:
>> Perfect!  On most of my systems the staging space is not a problem, but
>> I
>> can see how that can be important.
> 
> 8)
> 
>> An idea for a package is to use ar(1) for the pacage.  It is a well
>> understood, inhenerntly Unix facility.  A bit unusual, but why not?
> 
> Because Zip supports compression, and we have an already-donated
> zipfile manipulation library.

As long as the resulting file is not called TOOSHORT.EXE :-)

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Sincerely Yours, 

Simon Shapiro
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