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On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Chuck Lewis wrote:

> 30% @ V3R7 - WOW...
>
> That must really hamper development using new stuff for you folks. I know
> software vendors can't really be bleeding edge sometimes because of stuff
> like this, but that is REALLY old, eh ? :-)

Actually what really hampers us is not being able to send save files from
new releases to older ones.  I don't know much about OS/400 internals, but
this seems to me to be absolutely stupid.  I can unzip a zip file from
1991 on modern OSes and it works;  I can untar a tarball from 1987 and it
works.  Why does OS/400 have to be so difficult?

p.s.  There may not have been zip files in '91 or tarballs in '87 - though
my first linux computer was in '94 and the compressed tarballs from it can
still be read today, 8 years and many releases later.

James Rich



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