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Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 10:39:50 +0100
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: djgpp: djgpp/src/docs/kb/wc204.txi
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Hello.

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 11:50:29 -0400
> > From: "cvs-richdawe AT delorie DOT com" <cvs AT delorie DOT com>
> >
> > + @pindex djtar AT r{, and single-span spanned archives}
> > + @code{djtar} now copes with single-span spanned archives.
> 
> I think it would be useful to mention programs and their versions that
> produce such ZIP archives.

PKZIP has been able to span since at least 2.04 - perhaps earlier too? WinZip
doesn't. InfoZIP's zip doesn't seem to. I don't know about other programs.

I'm not convinced we'd gain anything from mention it. The user has to
explicitly enable spanning in PKZIP, so if they're spanning, they should
already know about it. I'd say spanning is a "power-user" feature of PKZIP.

OTOH if there are programs that span by default, I agree with you.

Bye, Rich =]

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