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From: blasius@gmd.de (Volker Blasius)
Subject: Re: A Request
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References: <1993May23.212004.3755@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
Date: Sun, 23 May 1993 21:38:53 GMT
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In <1993May23.212004.3755@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> pshepard@nyx.cs.du.edu (Pat Shepard) writes:

>Would it be
> possible for the if-archive at ftp.gmd.de and its mirrors to
>include utilities to decompress .tar and .Z archives for various  
>machines?  After two days of searching I can untar but not un-.Z
>and I am sure other people are in the same boat...most of us PC users
>are only equipped to Zip

No problem with me. I am somewhat handicapped right now (and for the next four
weeks) because I'm on vacation and maintaining the archive a bit from home, so
if someone will upload the utility programs to ftp.gmd.de:/tmp/if-uploads
I will make a directory general.tools or some such with subdirectories for the
various platforms and put the programs there. Please send me letter describing
the uploaded files or upload a separate description file (not part of an
archive because I probably won't be able to unpack it from here).

Something like this has been suggested several times, but nobody ever sent a
file, saying, "That's what you need for an XXX!"

The mirror at wuarchive is updated daily, so the uploads will soon show up
there, too.

Volker

Volker.Blasius@gmd.de  (or just blasius@gmd.de, as long as they don't hire
                        another Blasius)
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