Re: HPRT v1.0 posted on comp.binaries - HOORAY!

[irsman@iastate.edu (Ian Schmidt)]

In article <2s3loo$edi@paris.ics.uci.edu> jlee@ics.uci.edu (Orion Pax) writes:
>Ian Schmidt (irsman@iastate.edu) wrote:

>: What doesn't GSHK 1.1 do that we _need_?  Be serious here...there's no real
>: reason to update it, and I'd just as well have Andy writing cool new stuff (a
>: NuLib that compresses with LZW/2 maybe? :) instead...
>
>Um, BinSCII autodecoding, more compact compression, some basic desktop
>changes to let it background in gno (yankit doesn't have selectable
>extraction from what I know), and whatever else. :)

Sounds to me like a better yankit would be a good thing.  No archiver I know
of on any other machine autodecodes the ASCII format used (BinHex or UUDecode
for Stuffit Lite or PKUNZIP, as the case may be).  It's generally not a good
thing since binscii is a sort of archiver in itself.

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