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- From: w8sdz@tacom-emh1.army.mil (Keith Petersen)
- Subject: Re: $$ Is pkz204c worth the $$ ?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.043002.8125@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
- Followup-To: comp.compression
- Summary: Info-ZIP is free
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- Organization: The SIMTEL20 Archives
- References: <961@bbkingMDC.unisys.COM>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 04:30:02 GMT
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- rmarks@MDC.Unisys.COM (Richard Marks) writes:
- >I note that the Shareware price for pkz204c is $47. This
- >is a lot of money for a marginally better compression program.
- >
- >Lets keep things in perspective, all this does is implement
- >a rather old compression and librarian program. There are
- >a lot of other such programs out there that work real well.
- >Also I have spent a heck of a lot less for a bunch more
- >shareware functionality. So is this thing worth $47 ?
- >My answer is no.
-
- Because of this, and because of the bugs, some are advocating that we
- change to another archving method. Why are you ignoring the free ZIP
- and UNZIP from the Info-ZIP folks? Is it because the program is free?
- Maybe they should charge $20 for it so you would consider it.
-
- PKWare is NOT the only game in town.
-
- Follow-ups to comp.compression only, please.
-
- Keith
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- Keith Petersen
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