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Subject: Re: attn: which, bzip2,gzip maintainers (was Re: some problems with setup.ini)
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 00:40:29 +1100
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Earnie Boyd" <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
> > > Agreed. Shall we get rid of the separate archivers category?
> >
> > fine by me.
> >
>
> Uhm, bzip2, gzip, unzip and zip aren't archivers, they are compression
> utilities.  Tar, mt and ar are archivers.

I know. Your point being? Do you agree that we should get rid of
'archivers' or disagree?

The only things in 'archivers' are sharutils, zip and unzip. Once zip
and unzip are in utils, there's little need for sharutils to be in
archivers, as all the other archivers are also in utils.

Rob

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