Mail Archives: djgpp/1992/08/05/14:10:18
> 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
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