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- From: mmedina@halcon.dpi.udec.cl (Mario Medina C.)
- Subject: Re: PKzip for apollo
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- Message-ID: <Jan23.005437.22591@halcon.dpi.udec.cl>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 00:54:37 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.035320.4197@news.uiowa.edu>
- Organization: Universidad de Concepcion, Concepcion - Chile
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- Michael T Pins (mtpins@icaen.uiowa.edu) wrote:
- >mmedina@halcon.dpi.udec.cl (Mario Medina C.) writes:
- >
- >>Willem Jan Withagen (wjw@ebh.eb.ele.tue.nl) wrote:
- >->In article <1885@ddbeano.Dundee.NCR.COM> chris@ddbeano.Dundee.NCR.COM (Chris Ashmole) writes:
- >->=>
- [Lots of unnecessary stuff deleted]
- >
- >My what a mess we have above....
- >Last September, Info-Zip released new versions of zip/unzip (1.9 and 5.0
- >respectfully) that were to be compatible with the new pkzip 2.xx that was
- >supposed to be released RSN. Well, the new pkzip finally was released a few
- >weeks ago, and by all reports still has a number of annoying bugs.
- >Info-Zip's unzip5.0 will uncompress everything that the pkzip compresses, and
- >is fully backward compatible, so it's safe to install.
- >Info-Zip's zip1.9 compresses with the new pkzip format unavailable before
- >pkzip2.xx, so unless you have the latest (and still buggy) pkzip, don't use
- >zip1.9, use the previous version (who's number I don't recall offhand).
- >All of the above Info-Zip versions are available on grind.isca.uiowa.edu in the
- >unix/arc-progs area.
- >
- >--
- >*****************************************************************************
- >* Michael Pins | Internet: amigapd@isca.uiowa.edu *
- >* ISCA's Amiga Librarian | #include <std.disclaimer> *
- >*****************************************************************************
-
- To further mess things up, Info-Zip's unzip5.0 wasn't 100%
- compatible with pkzip 2.04c, so they wrote a patched version called
- unzip50p1 which presumes to uncompress anything compressed by pkzip
- 2.04c. I understand it appeared only last week.
- IMHO, Info-zip's products have proven to be reliable and very
- well written.Also, they can run in Atari, DOS, Unix, Mac, VMS Amiga and
- Windows NT (?!) machines, so maybe you could make without PkZips
- products altogether and install Info-Zip everywhere.
-
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