Bob Wright wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 BW> Greetings, Roy...

 BW>  Roy J. Tellason hastily said to Bob Wright:

 BW>> In my case, inertia.  I never got around to getting the PKware
 BW>> one.  "Free" didn't hurt any, either ;)

 RJT> I suppose I oughta get familiar with it one of these days.  Probably
 RJT> they'll work better,  too.

 BW> I don't necessarily know about better, since I don't have any 
 BW> real basis for comparison.  I do recall, though, that the 
 BW> InfoZip set won't handle or create archives that span floppies..

That's a feature that somehow has not really ever managed to assume that much
importance to me...

When I wrote that I was thinking about one particular program that I run here
which gets its output redirected to a log file (since it doesn't provide any
built-in logging facilities) and I see over and over and over again,  this
text:

   Extracting bundle from 1/720.
   -> Executing 'pkunzip -oed M:\MAX\FILE\INBOUND\00000069.TH6 '

   PKUNZIP (R)    FAST!    Extract Utility    Version 2.04g  02-01-93
   Copr. 1989-1993 PKWARE Inc. All Rights Reserved. Shareware Version
   PKUNZIP Reg. U.S. Pat. and Tm. Off.

Not just a line of junk,  _three_ of them.  I'm much more attuned to the unix
philosophy of unclutter,  don't produce output that doesn't bear directly on
the function of the program,  or report errors.  I strongly suspect that the
info-zip products fall under that heading.

 BW>>> ZIPCONTROL, although I've tried others along the way.

 BW> [... snip ...]

 BW>> You can use a set of default parameters, and don't have to
 BW>> remember the command-line ones.

 RJT> Overall,  it sounds like it's worth a look.  Now to try and get a hold
 RJT> of it...

 BW> It'll be on Hobbes in the archiver directory.  I originally got 
 BW> it from Gary Hammer's Must-Have Utilities site.

 BW> Or, you can go direct to the source at 
 BW> http://www.RPFSoftware.com

One of these days,  when I get 'net access.  At this point I've got email and
that's it.

 BW> The version I have here is 2.6.3 so I'd expect that you'd need 
 BW> to look for a file with the name zipct263.zip.  (I am sort of 
 BW> guessing at this, since I seem to have gotten carried away with 
 BW> the housecleaning and deleted the latest archive as well as the 
 BW> two prior ones..)

Heh.  I hate it when that happens...  That's one of the nice things about the
newer,  larger drives,  about having things networked,  you don't have to toss 
stuff out like you used to.  And at last resort there's always the pile of
formerly-AOL floppies I have here.

 BW>> - Origin: Merlin's Tower - Surrey, BC (1:153/944)

 RJT> 

 BW> Pure coincidence, I'm afraid.  I sort of inherited things from 
 BW> my son, who was into Arthurian legend when came up with the 
 BW> name.. about 6 years ago, so it predates Warp 3, let alone 
 BW> Merlin/Warp 4.  It does fit rather nicely, though, doesn't it?? 
 BW> :)

Yep.

 RJT> Got email?

 BW> rtwrigh@attglobal.net

More to follow in that channel...

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