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- From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy)
- Newsgroups: comp.compression
- Subject: Re: New PKZIP expected to ship week of Jan 4 1993
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.132047.9908@maths.tcd.ie>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 13:20:47 GMT
- References: <Bzr1x2.9FM@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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- afc@klaatu.cc.purdue.edu (Greg Flint) writes:
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- >I just logged off the PKWARE BBS where I read a message dated 23 Dec 92
- >that repeated that the new PKZIP was in final beta, but then added that
- >PKWARE expected to start shipping the week of 4 Jan 93.
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- Are PKZIP/PKUNZIP compatible with ZIP/UNZIP?
- Why do we have all these compression programs?
- In my experience the difference between them is marginal.
- The trouble caused by the multiplicity of programs
- vastly outweighs -- IMHO - any advantage gained
- by minuscule improvements in compression.
-
- Please don't produce any more programs!
- There is absolutely no need for them.
-
- Happy Xmas (XCOMPRESSED Christmas) ...
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- Timothy Murphy
- e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie
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- s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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