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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!news.claremont.edu!nntp-server.caltech.edu!madler
  2. From: madler@cco.caltech.edu (Mark Adler)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.compression
  4. Subject: Re: New PKZIP expected to ship week of Jan 4 1993
  5. Date: 24 Dec 1992 22:51:10 GMT
  6. Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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  8. Message-ID: <1hdesuINNq6u@gap.caltech.edu>
  9. References: <Bzr1x2.9FM@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1992Dec24.132047.9908@maths.tcd.ie>
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  13. Timothy Murphy pleads:
  14.  
  15. >> Are PKZIP/PKUNZIP compatible with ZIP/UNZIP?
  16. >> Why do we have all these compression programs?
  17. ...
  18. >> Please don't produce any more programs!
  19. >> There is absolutely no need for them.
  20.  
  21. Oh, ok.  Clearly they're not wanted, so we'll stop.
  22.  
  23. mark
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