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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.compression
- Subject: Re: New PKZIP expected to ship week of Jan 4 1993
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.193149.7635@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 19:31:49 GMT
- References: <1992Dec24.132047.9908@maths.tcd.ie> <725311404rommel.root@jonas.gold.sub.org> <1992Dec26.041734.18508@maths.tcd.ie> <725364826rommel.root@jonas.gold.sub.org>
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- In article <725364826rommel.root@jonas.gold.sub.org>, rommel@jonas.gold.sub.org (Kai Uwe Rommel) writes:
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- | Go ahead and use compress for the rest of your lifetime. Nobody will
- | disturb you. But beware, FSF is about to introduce a compress
- | replacement for the GNU system - it uses the zip 1.9 compression
- | engine ... it may or may not become a standard for other Unix systems
- | as well, we will see.
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- As long as they don't call it compress, they can introduce anything
- which pleases them. What we *don't* need is an incompatible program
- which has the same name.
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