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[Michal Moskal]

On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 11:45:26PM +0200, Rafał Kleger-Rudomin wrote:
> GoTaR <gotar at priv.onet.pl> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 15:59:56 +0200, Rafał Kleger-Rudomin wrote:
> > 
> > > It is still very popular as a standard to distribute
> > > platform-independent archives. It provides reasonable way to share
> > > archives with Windows world.  Do not remove.
> > 
> > I don't agree. WinZip(TM) understands .tar.gz format thus using zip
> > archives is, in my opinion, obsolete.
> 
> Nevertheless, much more programs understand old zip.
> 
> Anyway, I do not worry about interchanging files between two parties that could
> agree on the file format (e.g. me and my Win friends) 
> 
> The problem is that a lot of files and software packages around net
> are provided in zip already. For files distributed both for Win and
> Unix users, old zip is common (and reasonable) choose to avoid
> providing separate archives.

So unzip is still there. And if one wants to create zip archives, 
he can install package. And for un* tools, it's very often unknown
when they are needed.

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