Hello Alan,

 AB> So how about other zip suggestions.

There are so many options to zip stuff. When working at the command line I have
been useing Info-Zip's Zip and Unzip since OS/2 many years and now I still use
it on linux.

In a lot of cases PKWare's PKZIP and PKUNZIP is a good option too, a lot of
software is pre-configured for it.

 AB> I am really stuck at the defintion point of the program.

Archiver command lines can be a real PITA. I don't know what software you are
trying to configure but I could share what I use with HPT if it would help.

 AB> I cannot proceed without them.

In the FTN world it is possible to just use raw .pkt files between nodes, then
no archivers are needed but the Info-Zip and PKWARE products are usually
workable in my experience although there may be a road to travel there. :)

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

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