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Hej August!

> I'm not sure what specifically the "sh" one is.

That is a real old shell that has become a symbolic link to whatever the shell
you are really using, in your case probably ash.  In my case it is bash which
is a relatively new shell in the grand scheme of all that is termed unixie. 
On Solaris csh (aka c-shell) was all the rage.  You can chalk this one up as a
backwards compatibilty thingy.  On most, if not all, linux distributions bash
is the usual suspect (gnu).

> You are quite up to date.

I try.

> ZIP was/is quite ubiquitous. What makes it a ripoff?

From my limited understanding it was originally stolen code that became known
as pkzip and was made freely available to anyone caring to download and use
it.  At any rate it really isn't straight compresssion as it also archives
which is a totally different function.  In unixieland the archiving is usually
tar and doesn't require compression which, as Martha would say, is a good
thing.  In the days of nine track tapes, this was a feature since compression
was vorboten.

Het leven is goed,
Maurice

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