Gu-gu Peter...

> I'm the author of one of the others (lh/2),  and even though I use it all
> the time for my own use,  when I release a file for general consupmtion,  I
> use ZIP.  Why fight it?

I agree with that too. We can't fight a zip program that:
It's freeware
It's source code
It's available on more platforms than we could imagine (the listing is big).

And as archiver, it's good=fast&good compression.

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Rafa Gawenda, 

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