Re: LYNX-DEV post-2.7 ?

[Wayne Buttles]

On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Marc Baudoin wrote:

> > *) _I_ like zip/unzip better, myself, personally.  It is more available
> >    under DOS/Win, for instance.
> 
> I thought Lynx worked on UNIX and VMS so why bother with MS-DOG/windoze
> file formats?
> 

Fote once pointed out all the benefits of zip over tar.gz.  I believe one
was number of supported platforms and another was ease of use.  

Under Win95 I use the same zip/unzip as I do under Linux.  I do NOT use
PK(UN)ZIP.  If you can get past the hangup of pktools starting on a dos
platform...it is really an effective archive tool. 

Oh, I remember another reason, .zip makes it much easier to extract one
file from an archive. 

Wayne


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