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Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 16:19:15 PDT7
From: Steve Carter <scarter@vcnet.com >
Reply-To: scoug-help@scoug.com
To: scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject: SCOUG-Help: Archiver.bb2

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Steven:

subj. was: Re: SCOUG-Help: question regarding UN-zip versions !?

regarding the archiver.bb2 "standard"....

Archiver.bb2 is an elegant solution to the specific future-proofing
issue you mention. And we see it (the issue) much more often in
the OS/2 world than 'doze users do.

However, ........ (ahem!)
As a member of Mark Kimes' "in-crowd" and a long-time user
of ZTree Bold, you couldn't possibly be biased, could you? ;-)

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Steven Levine writes, in part:
> On 05/11/04, "Svobi" said:
>
>>From good SW normally I am expecting backward compatibility ;-))
>
> I see.
> My expectation is that good software should be "future proofed" as
> much as possible. Most ZIP frontends supply configuration tools that
> allow them to handle the inevitable changes that occur to the tools
> they use. If zipme supported the archiver.bb2 standard, you would
> be able to use whatever version of zip you wished.
>
> Regards, Steven
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