25 Oct 96 06:09, Greg Kerr wrote to andrew clarke:

 ac>> SNIP9510.RAR was online at 3:640/452 in file area 1.P3 back in

 > I am curious as to why the Snippets file would be archived using an 
 > archiver not widely available for platforms other than MS Dos based 
 > machines??

It's available in ZIP and .tar.gz archive formats from the author. 
Presumably it was converted to RAR format by somebody else before it was
hatched into the PDNCEE file echo (or wherever).

 > I use an Amiga and had a bugger of a time extracting it :-) 

I recall seeing freeware C source code to decompress RAR archives, for DOS,
Windows, OS/2 and Linux.  I don't know if it worked on the Ami though.

 > It seems curious that code useable on all platforms would only be able 
 > to be extracted on one!

Well, a substantial part of the SNIP9510 archive does contain DOS-specific
code (see DOSFUNCS.TXT).  Nevertheless, I don't disagree with what you're
saying.

Regards
Andrew

-- randy{at}zws.com

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