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 hits | | This is biased of course, since I'm sure many of the hits come from | the unzip package itself. Perhaps we should ask in debian-l10n-english.
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, but I don't believe that's a common English word either. I'd suggest something along the lines of "tool for extracting ACE archives" instead. Cheers, Cameron.
