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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: PKZip Amiga arrives
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Date: 12 Jan 90 17:41:53 GMT
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In <1990Jan11.062433.27699@i-core.UUCP>, pete@i-core.UUCP (Pete Ashdown) writes:
>Just got PKAZip 1.0 today. ...
>
>What is really nice about it is the fact that the whole thing is
>intuitionized, which IMHO makes it a better program than all the other
>compressors combined.

The fact that it cannot be run without manual intervention makes it, IMHO, the
single worst solution to archiving that I can think of. Given the choice
between a slow, poorly compressing archiver that can be run from a script
without manual intervention, and one that requires manual intervention, I would
opt for the former every time, and save myself a lot of time and aggravation,
considering the amount of archiving/unarchiving I do.

Unfortunately, there are so many folks who will jump on PKAZip as their
archiver of choice, I will be forced to use at least the 'unZip only' version,
which can be run from a script. I will be using it to convert any ZIPped files
to something more useful.

-larry

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