keithe@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson) (03/25/89)
I squirrel away almost any and every program or executable that looks like it might even have a chance of being interesting, to me or to someone in my (a) department; (b), company; or (c) my acquaintences. I simply have to use and archiver to keep the stuff to a reasonable size. When something comes in over USENET I save the uuencoded parts away in it's own subdirectory. (I use rn running on a VAX 11/785, BSD 4.3; I use my 386AT as a terminal using Tom Almy's minimalist terminal emulator that doesn't drop the lines on the RS-232 port so when I start it up again I'm still connected to the VAX). Once the parts are all there I kill the terminal simulator, and, using PC-NFS and its remote file system capability, I cd (in DOS, now) to the subdirectory with the newly-arrived programs and, using Richard Marks _excellent_ program, uudecode the pieces, resulting in a .arc file. I then use the atoz program (Anything-TO-Zoo) and convert the ARC file to a ZOO file. Before I discard the ARC file I always check to see what the sizes of the the ARC and the ZOO files; the ZOO file is not _always_ the larger, and it is often smaller. And the difference in sizes is almost NEVER even a DOS cluster's worth. Based on this ad hoc comparison between ARC and ZOO I've concluded that the resultant file size is not an issue. I haven't tried Phil Katz's pak program. Mostly inertia, probably. kEITHe