o beckles wrote:
> Felix Miata wrote:
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>> Charles A Edwards wrote:
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>>> On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 14:03:58 -0400 Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>>> When I get an unusable
>>>> install, the first thing I want to do is copy all the logs to an msdos
>>>> partition, which can be rather troublesome without zip.
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>>> Why?
>>> Both winzip and zip magic, and most win users have one or the other, can
>>> decompress .tar.gz files.
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>> msdos, not vfat. I multiboot Linux and OS/2 and PC DOS. No M$, so no
>> longnames on FAT. Utility disk boots don't have room for every
>> archiver/unarchiver, so old trusty PKUNZIP for DOS is it.
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> I think adding simple tools like zip and rar would help to make the
> distribution easier to use for newbies, windows converts and people
> have to work in windows environments. I don't think a majority of
> users live in a 100% Linux world so I see interoperatability with
> windows stuff as an advantage for Mandrake.
>
A agree with you ...
