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- From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
- Subject: Re: Why is pkz193a.zip so hard to find?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.050104.6227@uwasa.fi>
- Followup-To: comp.compression
- Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
- References: <1993Jan24.234347.22733@venus.ic.cmc.ca>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 05:01:04 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan24.234347.22733@venus.ic.cmc.ca> jcalvert@scorpio.ic.cmc.ca (John Calvert) writes:
- >I'll being following all the problems with pkz204c.zip, and decided
- >to sit it out. Then I thought I'd check out 193a, which I did find.
- >But it isn't on Simtel, or Oak. Could anyone tell me why?
-
- On top of the standard reasons (the encryption hassle), 1.93A wasn't
- really intended for "production runs".
-
- (How could anyone of us have know what a drag PKZIP 2 was going to
- be first as persistent vaporware, and then coming out as buggy as
- 2.04C did).
-
- All the best, Timo
-
- P.S. Followups to comp.comression since I somewhat changed the
- subject.
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