roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) (02/01/91)
A week or so ago, I asked about removing directories on a DOS
machine and got lots of answers pointing me to "rm" programs on various
anonymous ftp servers. I've been perusing the ftp archives and have come
up with another problem, namely that I don't know what to do with the files
I find there.
Obviously, all the .zoo, .arc, .zip, etc files are generated by
various archiving and compressing programs (like binhex and stuffit for the
Mac). Problem is, I don't know how to turn them into executables for my
PC. Can somebody give me a basic rundown on what the various forms of
archiving are, and where I get the programs to unarchive them? I fear,
however, that just like it was with the Mac at first, I'm going to run into
a bootstrap problem, namely that the only way to get unzip will be as an
arc file, and the only way to get unarc will be as a zoo file, etc. :-)
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