From: pen@lysator.liu.se (Peter Eriksson) Subject: Re: Use of zip instead of compress Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1992 23:42:23 GMT
osoelgaultier+@CMU.EDU (Stefan Monnier) writes:
>Sure, everybody can have a V32bis/V42bis for free and also a
>correspondingly fast connection also for free. And it's so hard to use
>Zip instead of Compress (Zip is so unstable that I never had any problem
>with it for 2 years now)
>I must admit that using Zip is a radical change.
I don't have any religious feelings for either compress or zip or whatever.
But a few questions since I'm not very familiar with zip (I've used it
a few times to unpack and pack some archives).
Can zip be used to uncompress/unpack/or-whatever-it-is-called a single
file coming from stdin and writing the output to stdout?
And the reverse?
Can zip talk to raw devices (tape, diskette) directly and handle them
correctly?
Does it handle Unix-specific things (symlinks, ownership, protection
codes) etc correctly?
/Peter