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- From: madler@cco.caltech.edu (Mark Adler)
- Newsgroups: comp.compression
- Subject: Re: File Format Hell: Difference Between PKZIP 1.1, 1.93a, and 2.0?
- Date: 12 Dec 1992 18:19:21 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- >> Another reason would be speed. With ZIP 1.9, the -k option will
- >> create a file which can be read by PKUNZIP 1.93a.
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- You don't always need the -k option. It's mainly to make the names
- conform to the MSDOS 8.3 names.
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- mark
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