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From: svanegmo@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Stephen van Egmond)
Subject: Re: Zip V8 (Re-releasing Zip)
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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 02:10:00 GMT
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In article <48abji$olf@bubba.nmsu.edu>, John Holder <jholder@nmsu.edu> wrote:
>I agree.  I would be happy for JZIP to join the bandwagon - I think there
>is still room for differing user interface modules, for the "look and feel"
>thing, but the rest of the core code should be the same. The only problem
>I forsee is that the two zip_random functions out there are not interchangeable.
>One works great on DOS (and probably other platforms) and the other works
>great on UNIX, but interchanging them is not possible because they fail to
>be random enough when switched...  Any volunteers to write an all-working
>zip_random, if it is possible?

I would imagine that minor, trivial differences that affect one line 
here, one line there like this one can easily be (and should be) 
accomodated with appropriate #ifdef AMIGA, #ifdef DOS, etc. statements.
