Date: Wed, 5 Aug 92 12:28:04 -0500
From: rcharif AT math DOT utexas DOT edu
Posted-Date: Wed, 5 Aug 92 12:28:04 -0500
To: dj AT ctron DOT com
Cc: wcwelch AT waynar DOT lcec DOT lockheed DOT com, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Status of list
Reply-To: rcharif AT math DOT utexas DOT edu


    >	3) Will these sources be portable?  I currently use the
    >		portable zip/unzip on VAX/VMS, SCO-Xenix, SCO-UNIX/ODT,
    >		RS6000, SUN workstations and MS-DOS machines.  The
    >		convienience of binary compatability of 'packed' files
    >		is something that I would loathe to give up.

    Probably not - I take advantage of DOS services to speed up the
    processing.  The format would be well documented, so writing an
    alternative program will be no big deal.

That is annoying. I use djgpp on a SPARC and I need to be able to
compress / decompress the distribution. It would be a real pain to
have to copy files to dos machine decompress them and bring them back.

If you want to use a new archiver fine, but please let it be
multiplatform at least.

Rami