Re: Zip V8 (Re-releasing Zip)
Wed, 15 Nov 1995 02:10:00 GMT
In article <48abji$olf@bubba.nmsu.edu>, John Holder <jholder@nmsu.edu> wrote:
>I agree. I would be happy for JZIP to join the bandwagon - I think there
>is still room for differing user interface modules, for the "look and feel"
>thing, but the rest of the core code should be the same. The only problem
>I forsee is that the two zip_random functions out there are not interchangeable.
>One works great on DOS (and probably other platforms) and the other works
>great on UNIX, but interchanging them is not possible because they fail to
>be random enough when switched... Any volunteers to write an all-working
>zip_random, if it is possible?
I would imagine that minor, trivial differences that affect one line
here, one line there like this one can easily be (and should be)
accomodated with appropriate #ifdef AMIGA, #ifdef DOS, etc. statements.