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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!isgate!complex!frisk
  2. From: frisk@complex.is (Fridrik Skulason)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
  4. Subject: Re: PKZip > 1.1: Why bother?!?!
  5. Message-ID: <192@complex.complex.is>
  6. Date: 6 Jan 93 21:31:16 GMT
  7. References: <93006.36581.J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM>
  8. Organization: Frisk Software International, Iceland
  9. Lines: 14
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  11. J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM writes:
  12.  
  13. >   What wonderful new advances are in the newer versions (1.93, 2.04, 3.05)
  14. >of PKZip?  Better compression, perhaps?
  15.  
  16. Probably, yes...but maybe not that much better.  The primary reason to have
  17. the new version is of course so that you can handle files you might receive
  18. from somebody else, if they are packed with the new version.
  19.  
  20. -frisk
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  23. Fridrik Skulason      Frisk Software International     phone: +354-1-694749
  24. Author of F-PROT      E-mail: frisk@complex.is         fax:   +354-1-28801
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