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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Archivers were wild and wooly back then, with everybody and their dog trying their hand at writing one. Zip was just the tip of the iceberg, and I needed to deal with ARC, ARJ, LZH, RAR and ZOO files among others in addition to ZIP, and needed to keep an assortment of archivers about to do so.
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Ah, ARJ... I used that a bunch. Later, the front-end I wrote got some extra code to also support ARJ, but that was it. Never used the other ones back then. In 1991, it was either ZIP or ARJ, at least in my circle.
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(There's a hilarious comparison of programming languages based on how you shoot yourself in the foot. In perl, for example, you shoot yourself in the foot, but no one else can figure out how you did it. Six week later, neither can you...  )
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Dennis
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http://www.toodarkpark.org/computers...f-in-foot.html
Blast from the past
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Assembly
You try to shoot yourself in the foot only to discover that you must first invent the gun, the bullet, the trigger, and your foot.
You crash the OS and overwrite the root disk. The system administrator arrives and shoots you in the foot. After a moment of contemplation, the system administrator shoots himself in the foot and then hops around the room rapidly shooting at everyone in sight.
By the time you've written the gun, you are dead, and don't have to worry about shooting your feet. Alternatively, you shoot and miss, but don't notice.
Using only 7 bytes of code, you blow off your entire leg in only 2 CPU clock ticks.
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That one cracked me up
