DOS Python [off-topic]

[Hans Nowak]

On 8 Oct 99, at 11:59, Adrian Eyre wrote:

> >> I suppose so; I never liked pkzip much, I preferred other (often more 
> >> obscure) archivers like rar, ace, and jar. :)
> 
> > Well, jar, IFAIK, is a renamed pkzip ;)
> 
> IIRC, there are two archive formats called jar. One is the one commonly
> associated with Java. The other is a really obscure aged archiver which
> hardly anyone has heard of. That's why I was a bit concerned when Sun
> chose the .jar extension for their purposes.

I wouldn't call it aged... check out this link...

http://www.arjsoft.com/jar.htm

I am not in any way associated with ARJ Software, I just happen to 
like this archiver. <g> On my humble PC at work, it was the only one 
which managed to pack 800 Mb of data... where WinZip, ARJ and other 
archivers failed to do so.


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