the duke wrote:
ZMan ZMan wrote:
the duke wrote:
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1) use tar.gz format, not Zip, as it is proprietary and deprecated
by GNU.
for tar.zg you can do it using cygwin, or any DOS port of gtar you
can find.
nope.
i'm not gonna use cygwin even though i have it installed. (i won't
even install WinACE or ala, even though it have .tgz support out of
the box)
i'm gonna use Zip as long as i'm on windos as i know that free (as
both in freedom, and in free beer) implementations of it for free
OSes do exist.
well, gnu deprecate the usage of prop. OSes at all, may they tell
you to reject some of my translations because of this ?
you know that _Winzip_ is a _shareware_, it is not free. you don't
seem to know that Lempel-Ziv is copyrighted. And you also don't seem
to know that some GNU/Linux distributions might not include a zip
utility. only a gzip utility. we don't use it to make Stallman happy,
we use it to make the package accessible for as much people as
possible. we prefer not using Zip like we prefer not using MS Doc
format. I won't throw away translations that someone will send me in
DOC format, but I will be forced to copy them to HTML without the DOC
formatting, and reformat the whole document. That's a lot of work
just like opening every ZIP you send and resend it as TAR.GZ, so that
everyone can enjoy it.
It's about sharing, not about being a zealot.
i don't like using prop. software.
but i feel no shame making a temporal use of the like which have free
& compatible counterparts, like zip
<http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/tools/zip/info-zip/Zip.html>/unzip
<http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/tools/zip/info-zip/UnZip.html>.
(anyway on windos i only use WinRAR, but as RAR isn't free and has no
open-source compressor (though it do have an open-source decompressor
<http://www.rarlab.com/rar_add.htm>), i don't use RAR when i want full
compatibility with others, but ZIP)
i know not much about the LZ (c)opyright, but the fact is that there
are free implementations of zip, maybe like lame for mp3... and as i'm
not an advocate i don't have a clue about it's legality.
when i'm on linux, which is where i prefer to be, i use only or almost
only free software (my ads-blocking software isn't free (...yet
searching a free alternate for some time now), and so is my 56K modem
driver (but as i'm on adsl since 04/2001, i don't install it, as i
don't use it)).
i won't be caught sending a file in a prop. format, like M$ DOC (when
it's worth reading of course... i'm not talking here about jokes ! ;))
- for any reason. because when i give something, i wish that it'd be
useful to the recipient ! (whatever the conditions are at the one's
side...)