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From: "-= ArkanoiD =-" <ark AT mpak DOT convey DOT ru>
Date: Fri,  4 Apr 97 03:47:40 +0300
Subject: Re: Interactive shells Re: 32bit BIOS
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nuqneH,

> Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 14:28:24 -0500 (EST)
> From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
> X-Sender: root AT capslock DOT com
> Reply-To: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
> To: OpenDOS discussion list <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
> cc: ark AT mpak DOT convey DOT ru, MPAUL AT ibh DOT rwth-aachen DOT de
> Subject: Re: Interactive shells Re: 32bit BIOS
[dd]
> >
> > TGZ! Don't forget .tar.gz archives! It _is_ common archiver!
>
> I have yet to see any major software, commercial or otherwise, or
> even any shareware software, freeware or public domain software
> released using TGZ in DOS.  I'm sure that somewhere out there is
> an example program that exists for the sole purpose of proving me
> wrong, however it fails miserably at doing so because this is the
> real world and we know that NO-ONE distributes programs for DOS
> using TGZ.  No sane person anyway.

That's not true. Counter-examples are Ghostscript,perl and some other GNU
utilities for DOS. Widespread enough.
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