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From: w8sdz@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Keith Petersen)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: To ZIP to not to ZIP
Keywords: ZIP ZOO
Message-ID: <4475@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
Date: 31 Dec 90 06:52:55 GMT
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Reply-To: w8sdz@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Keith Petersen)
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In article <2767@sixhub.UUCP> davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>  We've been through this before. The voters all agreed that a protocol
>needs to be portable (DOS, UNIX, and VMS minimum) and free (rather than
>shareware) for this group. So far I see zoo and lharc, with a useful
>UNIX zip a long time away.

The readers of comp.binaries.ibm.pc don't need a Unix ZIP.  Only the
moderator needs that, and you have a DOS emulator/window (whatever
it's called) which lets you run PKZIP on your Unix box.

Versions of a free UNZIP exist for DOS, UNIX, VMS, MTS, CMS and CP/M.
All are available from SIMTEL20.

Let's not turn this into another PK bashing session.  He's not involved.
ZIP is a public domain archiving format.  The Info-ZIP group is working
hard on the project to port UNZIP and ZIP to many platforms.

Keith
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