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- From: GILMART@LSTC2VM.stortek.com (Paul Gilmartin)
- Subject: Re: Looking for .zip for the mac
- Message-ID: <1682F716E.GILMART@LSTC2VM.stortek.com>
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- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 14:03:49 GMT
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- In article <YQ3MBX1L@cc.swarthmore.edu>
- R. Glenn Stauffer <stauffer@cc.swarthmore.edu> writes:
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- >In article <1992Jul21.031518.1490@zip.eecs.umich.edu> Jeffrey L.
- >Needleman, JNeedleman@MCIMail.com writes:
- >>There are a few unzip utilities for the Mac, but until this month no zip
- >>utilities. That has now changed! Zip 1.0 was just made available on
- >>America On Line. Since this question comes up a lot, I think I'll
- >>download it myself tonight and post it at sumex-aim.stanford.edu. Look
- >>for it there later in the week.
- >
- >I've had Zip 1.0 for quite a few months. Unfortunately, the program
- >appends a "d" to the names of files being "zipped". One of the program
- >authors, Johnny Lee (johnnyl@microsoft.com) apparently is working on an
- >update.
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- I tried it and couldn't get it to work at all on my SE running sys 6.0.7.
- The best it would do is create an empty archive, complain that it was empty,
- then quit.
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- The user interface is crude; the icon is generic -- the product of a novice.
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