23 May
2005
23 May
'05
6:20 p.m.
From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf at siconic.com>
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 7:49 PM
On Thu, 19 May 2005, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
So many people don't like that I post self extracting archives but at least
it is currently usable by the largest population and there is a better
chance when everything including the tools to extract it are all in one
file.
Randy
www.s100-manuals.com
The Idea of an archive is to try to minimize the
interdependencies.
The archive should include the zip, rar and tar information.
That doesn't mean that the archive should depend on them.
Very well said.
--
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
Festival
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