Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 19:03:30 -0500 (EST)
From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
Reply-To: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
To: "Jonathan E. Brickman" <brickman AT cjnetworks DOT com>
cc: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Interactive shells Re: 32bit BIOS
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On Fri, 4 Apr 1997, Jonathan E. Brickman wrote:

> > 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.
> 
> There is a standard GNU edition of both gzip and tar for DOS.

Being a Linux user - I have both installed in DOS (and most other
GNU stuff for DOS).  However, most other people DON'T have TGZ
allready, and it would be one more program to
download/install/learn how to use, when there is allready an
excepted standard for DOS - ZIP.  Although it doesn't come WITH
DOS, you'd be hard pressed to find a computer without it.


> > 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)
> 
> Agreed.  .tgz / .tar.gz is not really a very processor-efficient
> format.

Well, I'm glad that you agreed with me, the latter statement is
not in tune with what I was trying to say.  TGZ *IS* a good
archive format.  When I compare ZIP to TGZ in Linux, I find that
TGZ comes out smaller all of the time.  I don't know about the
speed, but the archives are usually smaller.  Nonetheless, TGZ
belongs in UNIX, and ZIP in DOS.  I like it that way too because
when I find a program on the net, I know whether or not it is for
DOS or Linux usually.  


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