Date:	Fri, 4 Apr 1997 07:32:47 -0600
From:	"Jonathan E. Brickman" <brickman AT cjnetworks DOT com>
Reply-To:	"Jonathan E. Brickman" <brickman AT cjnetworks DOT com>
To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Interactive shells Re: 32bit BIOS
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Message-ID:	<1351983535-40463443@mailhost.kspress.com>

> I have yet to see any major software, commercial or otherwise, or
> even any shareware software, freeware or public domain software
> released using TGZ in DOS.

There is a standard GNU edition of both gzip and tar for DOS.

I'm sure that somewhere out there is
> an example program that exists for the sole purpose of proving me
> wrong, however it fails miserably at doing so because this is the
> real world and we know that NO-ONE distributes programs for DOS
> using TGZ.  No sane person anyway.  Besides when is the last time
> you saw a DOS filename with two dots ('.') in the filename?  :o)

Agreed.  .tgz / .tar.gz is not really a very processor-efficient
format.

Jonathan E. Brickman   River City Computing, Inc.  (913) 232-6663
http://www.cjnetworks.com/~rivercity     brickman AT cjnetworks DOT com
This is life.  Take it by the whip.

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