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Alex Liu (aliu@aludra.usc.edu) wrote:
: But the point is that when they designed zcat/compress and tar, it was to 
: be modular.  compress is a generic file compressor, that you could use with
: any utility.  The fact that you have pipes allows you to use compress
: without having to write your own LZW compression routines.
: 	unzip -v file.zip foo*.*
: Doing that, for you is fine, but it is not necessarily better.  It is just
: a different way to do things.  One could argue for example, that unzip is
: a more complicated program than any of the unix equivalents, and at the
: same token not as flexible.  For example, the 3 previous commands, you
: can also grep for files of certain size, certain date, etc.  By adding
: an extra command you could also sort them in reverse order or by size,
: etc.  If unzip was to accomplish all that flexibility, that would

I might also interject the format is less specific.  Also perviewsly
archived files (shar) have a MUC higher compression ratio than
standard.  IE GTETRIS.ZIP is 18k shared and ziped BUT 32k when
archived BY zip.  Hmmmm  intresting?

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