Archive availability:
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Janis Kracht inadvertently posted the .ZIP versions of SNIPPETS and SNIPDIFF 
to the PDN. This was partially my fault since I was having trouble with line 
noise and had been unable to upload anything else to the ftp site. I'd 
suggested she convert the PDN versions to .RAR format, but it slipped through 
a crack.
For future reference, following are the versions I distribute to specific 
sites. I do this so that folks with different resources always have a source 
of an archive they can use.
Site                    Format
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snippets.org            .ZIP
                        .tar.gz         (see below)
juge.com                .LZH
(1:106/2000)
PDN                     .RAR
SimTel                  .ZIP
I, of course, have no problem if any of these sites wish to carry multiple 
formats (after all, it's their hard drive space!) Janis has already indicated 
that for at least the immediate future, she'll carry both the .RAR and .ZIP 
versions for PDN distribution.
Unix version:
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At snippets.org, I maintain a Unix version of SNIPPETS. There is no Unix 
version of SNIPDIFF since SNIPDIFF requires the user to run a DOS utility to 
perform the actual update. This also makes sense since ftp transfers will 
typically be faster than downloads, obviating the need for SNIPDIFF.
Beginning with the SNIP9707 release, I've switched formats from .tar.Z to 
.tar.gz to both save space and to reflect currently deployed technology. The 
SNIPPETS Unix archive is unique in two ways:
1.  The file names are all in lower case.
2.  All SNIPPETS files use a single newline character rather than following
    the DOS CR/LF convention.
Other types:
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If anyone has a need for any other type of archive, let me know and I 
probably have it on hand. In addition to the preceeding officially-supported 
archives, I also keep .ARJ and .tar.Z archives on hand. I can also convert to 
.ARC, .SQZ, .PAK, .ZOO, .HAP, .UC2, .DWC, and almost any others upon request.
Then the only problem is delivery... 
Selection criteria:
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If you have an easy choice of sites, but pay for download time, following are 
the file sizes of the officially supported archives: 
 DR 3.00á 
Disk vol "STACVOL_DSK"
Directory of D:\BINK\SNIP\XFER
13 Files totalling 5,907,707 bytes
364,019,712 Bytes free
Snipview Rar      52,806  ..a.rw.  24 Nov 96   0:00:00 << DOS browser
Snipview Arj      57,390  ..a.rw.  24 Nov 96   0:00:00
Snipview Zip      57,533  ..a.rw.  24 Nov 96   0:00:00
Snipview Lzh      57,723  ..a.rw.  24 Nov 96   0:00:00
Snpd9707 Rar      97,972  ..a.rw.   5 Jul 97   0:00:00 << SNIPDIFF
Snpd9707 Lzh     113,809  ..a.rw.   5 Jul 97   0:00:00
Snpd9707 Zip     120,195  ..a.rw.   5 Jul 97   0:00:00
Snip9707 Rar     706,730  ..a.rw.   5 Jul 97   0:00:00 << SNIPPETS
Snip9707 Tgz     723,180  ..a.rw.   5 Jul 97   0:00:00    (.tar.gz)
Snip9707 Lzh     939,752  ..a.rw.   5 Jul 97   0:00:00
Snip9707 Arj     957,482  ..a.rw.   5 Jul 97   0:00:00
Snip9707 Zip     965,523  ..a.rw.   5 Jul 97   0:00:00
Snip9707 Taz   1,057,612  ..a.rw.   5 Jul 97   0:00:00    (.tar.Z) 
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