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From: | babcock AT shell1 DOT cybercom DOT net (Robert Babcock) |
Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Subject: | Re: Why not to use 'tar' before packing DJGPP? |
Date: | 8 Nov 1996 22:44:26 -0500 |
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To: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com |
DJ-Gateway: | from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (George Foot) writes: >If the proposition is to tar the source, then zip it up, why not tar it, >then zip it along with untar.exe (or whatever) and instructions? If the goal is to shrink the distribution files without requiring the use of a utility which may not be easily available to DOS users, you could first make uncompressed ZIP files, then compress those.
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