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- From: nevries@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Nico E de Vries)
- Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d,comp.compression
- Subject: Re: $$ Is pkz204c worth the $$ ?
- Message-ID: <3582@accucx.cc.ruu.nl>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 16:21:04 GMT
- References: <961@bbkingMDC.unisys.COM>
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- Organization: Academic Computer Centre Utrecht
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- In <961@bbkingMDC.unisys.COM> 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.
-
- It is excactly the same price PKWARE asks for PKZIP 1.10. And if
- you have registered PKZIP 1.10 the new release is free. If you have
- registered an older version of the software you only pay $8.
-
- >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.
-
- The major (and nowadays about the only) advantage of the program is
- speed. This is unmatched by other released programs. For just good
- compression, portability, options etc products like InfoZIP, LHA,
- ZOO and ARJ all have there qualities as well.
-
- >I realize that pkzip is the big name in compression. What
- >would happen if Timo and Jim required a certification that
- >anyone posting to their machines had a legal copy?
-
- Why should they. InfoZIP is 101% (serious) PKZIP 2.04c compatible
- and is free and available for non MS-DOS systems as well.
-
- >Regards,
- >Richard Marks
- >rmarks@MDC.unisys.COM
-
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- To get (many) ==> LOSSLESS DATA COMPRESSION SOURCES <== get lds_10.zip at
- garbo.uwasa.fi /pc/programming. Make files for Borland C are included.
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