Mail Archives: opendos/2002/02/16/11:47:02
In response,
Arkady V.Belousov wrote:
>X-Comment-To: Denise L Yenko
>
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>Arkady simply repeated what I said. agreeing to most of what I had to say in my post, but continuing to claim that RAR is still "...better..."
>
>To clarify a small point, I don't use WinZip or PKZip/250)anymore. I now use only zip32.exe and unzip32.exe, for their LFN support. Both files, which are in the DJGPP distribution, are easy to find and use.
>
Admittedly, the command-line syntax (of un/zip32.exe) is somewhat
different than pkzip, but so what? It has the functional compatibility.
As just one example of "superior" technology being trumped by
compatibility/open architecture issues, the ISA/EISA standard for PC
card slots is still in use. An innovative new "standard", "The
MicroChannel", from IBM, although arguably technically superior to
ISA/EISA, according to some, never made it in the market place primarily
because it was not compatible with any other bus system, except IBM's
and Radio Shack's *LICENSED* version. The new "standard' format simply
died of malnutrition after a couple of years. The abandonment was so
complete that one has to look long and hard to find hardware peripherals
or programs that can use the PS/x architecture and BIOS.
As I said in my earlier post, my comments would probably not change your
mind, and the majority of us won't change ours, but it would be a polite
thing to do to offer your code in a *GENERALLY USABLE FORMAT* (ie., the
zip format.)
My last words on the subject.
~ Denise ~
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