[Tutor] Linux help required

[Kalle Svensson]

Sez Michael P. Reilly:
> Kalle Svensson wrote
> > 
> > Sez D-Man:
> > > On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 11:53:35PM +0000, Alan Gauld wrote:
> > [tar/gzip version of tutorial]
> > > Also, linux has "zip" and "unzip" commands for handling zip archives.
> > 
> > Yes, but unzip is in non-free in debian and thus unavailable to me and all
> > other fanatics.  I believe the reason is some patent problem, but I'm not
> > sure.  Why unzip is non-free and zip is free beats me, but it is annoying.
> 
> You can get a free, compatible (to PKZIP*) copy from Info-Zip, both the
> compression and decompression utilities (which are separate).

I was referring to free as in freedom.  I'm one of those hippie communist
hacker guys. <wink>

Peace,
  Kalle
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