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Subject: Re: What features make WinZip a bad idea?
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 14:59:50 -0700
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"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote in message
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> > From: David Gravereaux <davygrvy AT pobox DOT com>
> > Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> > Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 08:31:00 GMT
> > >
> > >One other ``feature'' is that WinZip converts text files to DOS CR-LF
> > >format.  That could wreak havoc on some semi-ASCII files.
> >
> > I think that's a settable option with tar file exploding.
>
> AFAIK, _all_ of the misfeatures mentioned in this thread are
> settable; the problem is that many users are unaware of the dnagers
> in having them set, and also because the default settings seem to
> be--how should I put it--suboptimal.

Bravo!   I guess this is what I was thinking all along.  However I did not
know
if there where options, that where "dangerous" or not.
And if there were dangers, I felt like I should learn about them so that I
dont
stumble on them in the future.

Thanks,

William