Subj : Arvchive format
To   : Peter Hampf
From : Tom Laermans
Date : Tue Dec 12 2000 02:02 pm

Hi Peter ...

At 08-Dec-00 18:48:40, Peter Hampf wrote to * about Arvchive format...

 PH> I have plans to distribute the O/T archive as 32-bit Windows SFX
 PH> archive instead of the old DOS SFX archive
Hmm.

 PH> People without Windows can extract the SFX archive with the good
 PH> ol RAR.EXE, with the drawback that the installation is not
 PH> interactive any more
Hold that tought.

 PH> Can anybody think about any reason against this?

- The program itself is not Win32 anyway
- You lose the installer
- I'll still need RAR.EXE to unRAR the "windows" SFX on any OS that's not
Win32 (aka dosemu/linux, os2 (?), dos itself, ....)

So, why would you? Is it smaller than a DOS installer one? (And still then)

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