Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 16:27:06 -0500 (EST)
From: Daniel Reed <djr AT narnia DOT n DOT ml DOT org>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: (fwd) Compression
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On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, DJ Delorie wrote:
) > ..., 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*.
Would it really be hard to have each package stored in more than one format,
such as a regular gzip'd/bzip2'd tarball for Linuxians, a PkZip-compatible
.zip for Microsoftians, etc.?

Alternately, I know you can still use pkzip.exe to extract PkZip-created
self extracting .exe files, is this true of InfoZIP/unzip/whatever you might
use on your Irix/Linux boxes?

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Daniel Reed <n AT ml DOT org>
God's okay, it's some of his fan clubs that worry me...