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From: imp@dancer.Solbourne.COM (Warner Losh)
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Subject: Re: LZW and shareware wars
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Date: 2 Aug 90 08:21:47 GMT
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In article <JIM.90Aug1125737@baroque.Stanford.EDU> jim@baroque.Stanford.EDU (James Helman) writes:
>The battle was still raging when Lucky gave his talk last year.  Does
>anyone know what's happened since to Henderson|Katz|ARC|PKARC|PKPACK?

Phil Katz stopped working on PKPACK.  He then produced PKZIP which had
all kinds of tm's in it.  It is faster than ARC, does lots better at
compression, and seems to be better built.  Most places have dropped
arc like a hot rock, and have adapted ZIP as the standard.
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Warner Losh		imp@Solbourne.COM