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- From: mikey@slic.cts.com (Mike Shirley)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: HELP: .zip format
- Message-ID: <ygmNVB7w165w@slic.cts.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 21:30:09 PST
- References: <1992Dec11.065130.21737@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- mrosen@nyx.cs.du.edu (Michael Rosen) writes:
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- > rhuynh@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Richard Huynh) writes:
- >
- >
- > >Hi,
- > > I have a problem with a .zip file, it seem that pkunzip doens't
- > >recognise it. I can view the content of the .zip file but can't extract
- > >it. Does anyone know which zip program may be able to extract this ?
- >
- > I've heard that pkzip 1.93 alpha may be able to read these. Seems some
- > people are using this version when they shouldn't...
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- I have used DEZIP.EXE successfully at times when PKUNZIP doesn't
- work. Not sure why either.
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- Definately do not use V1.93 to ZIP if you wish to maintain
- backward compatability. Decompression works fine though.
-
- Mileage can vary radically...
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