On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 01:28:31PM -0500, Joe Drew wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 09:33, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> > I'm a native English speaker and I don't believe I've ever heard the
> > term de-archiver; its meaning is clear, but it sounds 'wrong'. The
> > hyphen, especially, looks out of place
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 10:33:47PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 03:09:17PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> | Hmm, do you mean that *you* don't speak about de-archivers?
> | [ This is the first time I hear about this in 6 years ].
> |
> | Google says:
> |
> | dearchiver
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 09:33, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> I'm a native English speaker and I don't believe I've ever heard the
> term de-archiver; its meaning is clear, but it sounds 'wrong'. The
> hyphen, especially, looks out of place. "Unarchiver" is what I'd use
> if I had to coin a word for it,
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 03:09:17PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
| Hmm, do you mean that *you* don't speak about de-archivers?
| [ This is the first time I hear about this in 6 years ].
|
| Google says:
|
| dearchiver 391 hits
| de-archiver 1660 hits
| unarchiver 1240 hits
| un-archiver 1500 hi
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 11:04:15AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 06:52:53PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > > > Description : De-archiver for .ace files
> > >
> > > This is clumsy. Please say "extraction utility for .ace
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 10:57:23PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > I don't mind changing it, but you should speak with the maintainers of
> > arj and unzip first (just for the sake of consistency).
>
> In the case of package descriptions, I don't think that consistently bad
> is better than incon
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 11:04:15AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 06:52:53PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > > Description : De-archiver for .ace files
> >
> > This is clumsy. Please say "extraction utility for .ace archive files"
>
> It's analogous to the descriptio
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 06:52:53PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > Description : De-archiver for .ace files
>
> This is clumsy. Please say "extraction utility for .ace archive files"
It's analogous to the descriptions in arj and unzip.
> or something similar (see descriptions for unarj, z
On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 07:23:42PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
>
> * Package name: unace
> Version : 1.2b
> Upstream Author : Marcel Lemke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * URL : None. Google for "unace-1.2b.tar.gz"
I hope you can do better t
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: unace
Version : 1.2b
Upstream Author : Marcel Lemke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : None. Google for "unace-1.2b.tar.gz"
* License : Ambigous
Description : De-archiver for .ace files
I'm referring to the 1.2b r
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