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Date:	Wed, 28 Nov 2001 08:46:59 -0500
From:	Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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To:	Robert Collins <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
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Subject:	Re: attn: which, bzip2,gzip maintainers (was Re: some problems with
	setup.ini)
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Robert Collins wrote:
> 
> ----- 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.
> 

Yes, get rid of it.

Earnie.

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