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- From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
- Subject: Re: $$ Is pkz204c worth the $$ ?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.174023.5350@uwasa.fi>
- Followup-To: comp.compression
- Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
- References: <961@bbkingMDC.unisys.COM> <1993Jan12.052426.9168@uwasa.fi> <16353@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:40:23 GMT
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- In article <16353@auspex-gw.auspex.com> wally@Auspex.COM (Wally Bass) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan12.052426.9168@uwasa.fi> ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:
- >
- >> ... PKZIP is the dominant current standard.
- >
- >The dominant standard, I think, is something that can be decompressed
- >with pkunzip 1.10. If someone comes out with something which can't
-
- Fair enough. But being able to unzip 1.10 files with 2.04C is not
- totally insignificant. Also, do not forget what Keith said about
- the Info-ZIP products. They can be used to unpack 2.04C files both
- on Unix and on MsDos. (To be accurate, on Unix the fully, all-out
- compatible version of Info-ZIP's unzip is still on the way). These
- points do not contradict what you say, but should not be ingnored
- either.
-
- >be decompressed by pkunzip 1.10, then it is no longer the dominant
- >standard. Just because the files produced by this program have
-
- At the moment you are most certainly right. It will take some time
- for the new version to disseminate (even assuming the the bugs will
- be corrected).
-
- ---
-
- I have a CAM co-moderator's dilemma in here. These discussions
- concern a very intresting recent upload to an MsDos FTP archive and
- problems of and views on the said program. This makes this a fully
- relevant subject in comp.archives.msdos.d. However, since the most
- discussions on this subject go on in comp.compression, I have
- pointed the potential followups of this posting to comp.compression.
- That is anyway where this seems to be at right now.
-
- All the best, Timo
-
- ..................................................................
- Prof. Timo Salmi Co-moderator of comp.archives.msdos.announce
- Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 128.214.87.1
- Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
- Internet: ts@uwasa.fi Bitnet: salmi@finfun ; SF-65101, Finland
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