In article <20021214175900.A1630@roystonvasey.local>,
	cjep@fawlty.net (Chris Pinnock) writes:
> On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 12:00:50PM +0100, Lubomir Sedlacik wrote:
>> On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 12:47:33PM +0200, Chris Pinnock wrote:
>> >
>> > Log Message:
>> > Remove parchive as it duplicates misc/parchive.
>>
>> wouldn't it be better to actually move misc/parchive into archivers/ ?
> 
> It's intentional use is for Usenet news postings, so one could argue
> that it belongs in news. It may as well stay in misc.  However, I don't
> think you'd meet much resistance if you moved it.

That's it's predominant use, certainly. I seem to remember placing it in
"misc" because it doesn't actually make or utilize archives, but rather
parity files, and in fact the parity files could be generated for things
that aren't even archives, such as disk images, even "avi"'s and "jpeg"'s,
for example.

-- 
Frederick