Hallo Maurice!

"MK" == Maurice Kinal
 writes:

 MK> Just a sec ... nope no zip.  

Then install it. It's really that simple.

 MK> What distribution do you think is mine?

How would I know? Doesn't matter, though, as there's even a ZIP
implementation for the Commodore 64. :-)

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 MK>>> Nothing like that here.
 WCK>> Maybe, but it still would be useful here.
 MK> Sure.  Some people seem to like that sort of thing but I cannot
 MK> see why it would be needed or a requirement Fido-wise.  

Who said anything about it being a requirement? It would be useful for some
(including myself) to have it. Nothing more, nothing less. It would be an
*optional* component, of course.

 MK> I also don't see why any commercial software would be written
 MK> into any protocols, specs, or anything of that nature especially
 MK> when that same software cannot make any assurances of continued
 MK> usage over the years.  

ZIP has proven its usefulness for over a *decade*. Should be enough to make
it a de-facto standard at least, I'd say.

 MK> to make that a standard is extremely questionable and yet that
 MK> seems to have happened in the past and all of us are haunted by
 MK> it, zip format being a primary example 

You're haunted by the ZIP format? I'm sorry but that's ridiculous.

 MK> You could transform any text-based format to XML or whatever.

Yes, but why not *internally* use a more versatile format?

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Grüße, Wulf

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