julian@bongo.UUCP (julian macassey) (10/18/89)
I have a copy of pkxarc for the 3b1, ported by Howard Chu I believe.
This has allowed me to unarc tons of documents that have come my way from
the MS-DOS world. Just as I was getting good at arc-ing and un-arcing, I am
now being presented with zip. I don't seem to have anything on my system
that will unzip files. Is there something out there that will do the job? If
so, could someone point me in the right direction.
Now I hear the latest compress utility is called zoo. Is this a case
of the compress utility of the week? Will it ever end? Will there be a zoo
variant for the 3b1? What was wrong with arc? It worked and was simple to
use, which I realise can condemn much software to be buried under scorn and
derision.
So if you know what I can do about the zip and zoo stuff, please let me
know.
Yours in anger and bewilderment
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Julian Macassey, n6are julian@bongo ucla-an!denwa!bongo!julian
n6are@k6iyk (Packet Radio) n6are.ampr.org [44.16.0.81] voice (213) 653-4495caa@garnet.ssd.cdc.com (Charles A. Anderson) (10/19/89)
(I wasn't aware of pkxarc for the 3b1, I didn't think pkware released the source..) Howard Chu ported arc 5.21 to unix, this works great. Rahul Desi (sp?) wrote zoo, and made it portable, it compiles on unix just fine. zoo does subdirectories, arc doesn't. Pkzip is pkarc renamed because SEA (the makers of arc) got mad at Phil Katz (the author of pkstuff) and sued him. THe pkzip format is different from pkarc. There is also lharc this came from japan, and does a better job of compression than the others, it is also slower. The best thing to use tar and compress. Tar handles subdirectories, and all of that good stuff, and compress does a better job of compression than arc and zoo (they both use LZW 13 bit, compress uses LZW 16 bit) I'm not sure about how well lharc compresses compared to compress. Anyone else want to join the archiver of the month club? -Charlie -- Charles Anderson | caa@garnet.ssd.cdc.com \ Disclaimer: I said what? ----------------/ caa@midgard.mn.org \ But CDC didn't. If someone deserves a cheap shot, by all means, give it to them.