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From: chad@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (D. Chadwick Gibbons)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: PKZIP 1.10 vs. LHARC
Keywords: PKZIP
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Date: 10 Jul 90 01:03:27 GMT
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In article <1990Jun20.032819.23081@uwasa.fi> (Timo Salmi LASK) writes:
|In article <8762@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> (bill davidsen) writes:
|>  Since there is no PKZIP for UNIX, LHARC is a lot faster there. So are
|>ARC and ZOO. Phil has chosen not to compete in those systems.
|I've wondering about why.  It doesn't make sound business sense,
|does it?

	A policy of PKWare inc. is not to release its sources.  To
effectively produce utilities for UNIX, you need just that--sources.  Phil
explains quite well how to perform the ZIP operations, it just takes some
soul to bite the bullet and produce the code.  As you know, plenty of
un-zip utilities exist, just no create-zip utilities.
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D. Chadwick Gibbons, chad@csd4.csd.uwm.edu, ...!{rutgers,uunet}!uwm!uwmcsd4!chad