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On Tue, 25 Mar 1997, -= ArkanoiD =- wrote:

> I hope so. (it won't). I just don't want it to be mandatory - i am afraid
> of that because NC 5.0 is big and ugly. And - being compared to other shells
> it *does* cost memory,speed,etc..
>
> > I must admit, it would be slow if for maximum compatibility using
> > we'd use the original 3rd party archivers, but, of course, we could
> > write specialized programs for common archivers like ZIP/ARJ/RAR/LHA.
>
> 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.  Besides when is the last time
you saw a DOS filename with two dots ('.') in the filename?  :o)



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