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3.6.2 OS specific information about archiver.

Behaviors of the following archivers are confirmed by further experiences. (`*' mark means recommended archiver).

 
[OS/2]  Warp4.0J(w/o VoiceType)+Fx00505/emx0.9c(fix04)/PMMule,EmacsPM
         LHA  OS/2 version Rel.2.06b    Feb 18, 1998
        *UnZip 5.32 of 3 November 1997, by Info-ZIP.
        *Zip 2.2 (November 3rd 1997).
         Zoo archiver, zoo 2.1 $Date: 91/07/09 02:10:34 $
         GNU tar version 1.10 - AK 2.58 (DBCS/SJIS) 981216(homy) version
         gzip 1.2.4 (18 Aug 93) + bzip2 patch(by Iida-san)

[UN|X]  FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE, Linux 2.0.30, Solaris2.6, HP-UX 9.07
         LHa for UNIX  V 1.14c
         UnZip 5.32 of 3 November 1997
         Zip 2.2 (November 3rd 1997)
         GNU tar 1.12 (1.11.x is no good)
         gzip 1.2.4 (18 Aug 93)

[Win32] Win.98/Meadow
         Lha32 version 1.28
         Zip 2.2
         UnZip 5.40
         GNU tar 1.11.8 + 1.5(WIN32)
         GZIP 1.2.4
         RAR 2.06

* Caution about LHA

If you are an OS/2 user, Peter Fitzsimmons's LH/2 is not supported. Hiramatsu version of LHA is only supported. In Win32, LHa32 is only supported (DOS version is no good).

* Caution about GNU tar

You have to take care about GNU tar's version because many version has problem on deleting file from archive.

Please test `--delete' `-f' options work. Otherwise, your archive will be destroyed. No problem is reported on above versions of GNU tar.


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