At 07:47 8-1-02 +0000, you wrote: > > Yeah, so that's why many people use ARJ or LZH for MSX-related archives. >But.... when you download something (with your PC or Mac), you can unzip it >right away and put it on a DD disc. When I download a program or something >and I see that it is not a ZIP file, I just throw it away because of all >those stupid ARJ-LZH, etc. extensions. Just use ZIP. It's a standard. Why >unpack it on your MSX when you have a PC
Simple... People want to be able to unpack these files on MSX to get rid of the long filenames these non-msx version seems to need to create as well. and you can perfectly unpack an LZH file (or ARJ for that matter) by adding the decompressor in the WinZip configuration. btw. what if the extracted stuff seems to be bigger than one DD-disk? you'd be happy to be able to unpack the archive on an msx harddisk then. The users made ZIP a standard on pc/mac, for MSX the standard is PMA, but nowadays even LZH, which enables people to choose to unpack either on pc/mac or msx... GreeTz, BiFi Visit my Home Page at www.bifi.msxnet.org mail me at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FTP: ftp.bifi.msxnet.org ICQ #36126979 -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
