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From: "Paul G." <pgarceau AT qwest DOT net>
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Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 14:42:44 -0800
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Subject: Re: attn: which, bzip2,gzip maintainers (was Re: some problems with setup.ini)
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On 28 Nov 2001 at 8:46, Earnie Boyd wrote:

> 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.

	I agree.

		Paul G.

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