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- From: nevries@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Nico E de Vries)
- Newsgroups: comp.compression
- Subject: Re: Pkzip 2.0 in the 23'rd century?
- Message-ID: <3330@accucx.cc.ruu.nl>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 17:24:00 GMT
- References: <17484@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Organization: Academic Computer Centre Utrecht
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- In <17484@mindlink.bc.ca> Robert_Salesas@mindlink.bc.ca (Robert Salesas) writes:
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- >Why, did version 1.1 stop compressing files? You bought a product that
- >worked, it still does, I'd say that's a good investment. Is it a bad
- >investment to buy a 1993 Accord because the 1994 will "soon be released"?
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- >In my opinion the only mistake PKWare did was announce 2.0. They need not
- >apologize for not releasing it if it isn't ready, for whatever reason.
-
- Sounds reasonable. Unfortunately the REAL problem is PKWARE has competition.
- To try to keep customers they released a alpha version of 2.0 and announced
- 2.0. If PKWARE would have been completely quiet by now much more people
- would be using LHA, ZOO, ARJ etc because those compress better than PKZIP
- 1.10 does.
-
- >Rob
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