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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Compressing for DOS
Date: 13 Jul 1996 11:42:55 GMT
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sgregory@pubspo.hq.af.mil (Scott Gregory) wrote:

> I have a bunch of files on my web server that I would like to compile
> and compress with FreeBSD.  What should I use that will make them able
> to be uncompressed with pkunzip?

zip/unzip (the ``infozip'' distribution) are in the ports/packages
collection.  If you run zip -k, you even pretend to be MS-DOS in the
created archive.

-- 
cheers, J"org

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