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From: dfrancis@tronsbox.UUCP (Dennis Francis Heffernan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: PKAZIP news
Keywords: it's dead, jim
Message-ID: <260b2bdb:6150comp.sys.amiga@tronsbox.UUCP>
Date: 24 Mar 90 09:00:21 GMT
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	Picked this up on a BBS in Michigan- the ShareWare HQ BBS, 
1-313-473-2020:

---begin quoted material---
 Msg: #5386  Sec: 1 - Utilities
      23-Mar-90  03:43 PM
Subj: PKAZIP
From: Dennis Hoffman
  To: ALL

I am no longer associated with PKAZIP.  The wrath of PKWare has struck!  Since
the majority of PKAZIP users have not contributed for it, PKWare has cancelled
my contract with them and I will no longer receive royalties.  Since I will
not get any further payment for the program, I will not preach about paying
for it.

I guess it is time I got out my copy of LHARC and learn to use it.  The timing
of PKWare's decision is unfortunate.  I was about to compile my first CLI
version this week.

(REply Quit ?):

---end quoted material---

	I'm not exactly heartbroken; if he'd done a CLI version in the first
place he might not have had this problem.

	On the other claw, I just found a use for PKAZIP- a BBS I call in 
Texas has a "fastmail" feature that will ZIP all the new messages for 
downloading.  Now I have to ask myself if I want to use (and therefore pay 
for) something when the author isn't going to get his cut...


Dennis Francis Heffernan	|  "Great spirits have always 
dfrancis@tronsbox		|   encountered violent opposition
...uunet!tronsbox!dfrancis	|   from mediocre minds"
Killer GM- Reasonable fees	|   --Albert Einstein