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- From: roe2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Cave Newt)
- Subject: Re: InfoZip
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.192121.20850@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: University of Chicago
- References: <1992Nov13.051603.2701@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> <3321@accucx.cc.ruu.nl>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 19:21:21 GMT
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- cuffell@spot.Colorado.EDU (CUFFELL TIMOTHY MICH) writes:
-
- >>I just grabbed the InfoZip zip and unzip, and they work great for my Unix
- >>account. I noticed they had makefiles for various DOS compilers. Is there
- >>any compelling reason why I should use InfoZip rather than Pkzip?
-
- nevries@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Nico E de Vries) writes:
-
- >It is free and does have less bugs. Files which make PKZIP 1.10 fail for
- >example don't make InfoZIP (PKZIP 1.10 compatible version) fail. No bugs
- >with InfoZIP integrity are known (to me at least) and there are some
- >in PKZIP 1.10 and PKZIP 1.93a (and of cource a lot in older PKZIP
- >releases, especially PKZIP 1.01).
- >
- >Also the people making it are nicer :-)
-
- Aw, gosh (warm fuzzies flooding the room, making it hard to breathe...)
-
- There are a couple of other reasons, too: both Zip and UnZip provide
- means to translate EOLs (LF <--> CR/LF, etc.) between various operating
- systems; there is no PKUNZIP capable of decrypting the new encryption
- headers used by Zip 1.9 (well, unless PKZIP 2 was just released this
- week at Comdex...); you don't have to remember some option to extract
- subdirectory trees directly; you can use regular expressions in picking
- which files to unzip; etc. PKUNZIP, on the other hand, allows wildcard
- zipfiles (coming soon in UnZip, but not yet there...) and is faster
- under MS-DOS (not by much under OS/2 2.0, however, but it can only do
- non-deflated zipfiles).
-
- Greg Roelofs
- Info-ZIP guy
-