Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 15:50:55 -0500
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	from Daniel Reed on Thu, 18 Mar 1999 15:44:06 -0500 (EST))
Subject: Re: (fwd) Compression
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> ..., which is why you use self-extracting archives, where the binary format
> used is that of the platform the archive is targetted for (which might help
> prevent people from downloading DOS-centric packages for their Linux boxes,
> etc.).

In that case, it's definitely out, because all DJGPP packages are
either built on SGI IRIX, or must be unpacked under Linux.  Anything
that requires DOS is not going to work for *me*.