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- From: boberg@lysator.liu.se (Stefan Boberg)
- Newsgroups: comp.compression
- Subject: Re: PKWARE AND ASI AGREEMENT
- Message-ID: <1600@lysator.liu.se>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 09:44:00 GMT
- References: <1467.1021.uupcb@meaddata.com> <3044@accucx.cc.ruu.nl>
- Sender: news@isy.liu.se (Lord of the News)
- Organization: Lysator Academic Computer Society, Linkoping University, Sweden
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- nevries@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Nico E de Vries) writes:
-
- >>Interactive, Pyramid), MacIntosh, MVS, Amiga, Ultrix, and other
- >>environments as needed. The products will include PKZip, PKUnzip, PK
- >>Data Compression Library, PKLite, PKSFX, and future PKWare products.
-
- >PKLite for all these platforms? Impressive. How many of the Amiga version
- >do they expect to sell, 1 or 0 :-)
-
- Since there are tons of PKLite-style programs available for the Amiga
- already, I wouldn`t expect them to sell many. Especially not at the prices
- Phil Katz usually charge. I wouldn`t expect him to get much from PKZip
- Amiga either since LhA is the standard on the Amiga and PKZip for MSDOS
- isn`t what I`d call a great archiver. They need to work much harder to
- be able to compete on the Amiga.
-
- >>day-to-day operations. While used extensively in the DOS environment,
- >>common binary file storage with data compression is not widely used in
- >>the other platforms and environments.
-
- >Where does this idea come from?
-
- They obviously haven`t got a clue. At least for the Amiga there are
- a multitude of different data compression programs, including realtime
- compressing filesystems and good archivers. Same with Macintosh.
-
- >>The Data Compression Library for UNIX and MacIntosh is available
- >>immediately for a cost of $495. PKZip for UNIX is also available for a
- >>shareware registration fee of $87.
-
- >Amazing, is this true? Did anyone actually see this products or is it
- >as usual with PKWARE just the announcement ;-(.
-
- And who on earth would want to pay $87 for PKZip when Info-ZIP works
- just as well and is free at that!?
-
- They`re just to late... If they had released these products a year
- ago maybe it had been a success. But not now.
-
- Who`s ASI anyway???
- --
- Stefan Boberg - AP & EE student at Linkoping Institute of Technology, Sweden
- Author of LhA, ArjA and LhArcA. Co-author of Alien Breed, Project X, Full
- Contact and Miami Chase.
- EMail: boberg@lysator.liu.se, lha@augs.se FidoNet: 2:204/404
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