Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!apple!usc!cs.utexas.edu!rice!uupsi!sunic!news.funet.fi!tukki.jyu.fi!jyu.fi!otto From: otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Windows installation disk compression? Message-ID: Date: 9 Feb 91 17:25:54 GMT References: <12281.27a9a905@ecs.umass.edu> <1991Feb7.192957.7986@sunee.waterloo.edu> <1991Feb8.041654.16071@rti.rti.org> Sender: news@tukki.jyu.fi (News articles) Organization: Turing Police, Criminal AI section Lines: 23 In-Reply-To: bcw@rti.rti.org's message of 8 Feb 91 04:16:54 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: jyu.fi In article <1991Feb8.041654.16071@rti.rti.org> bcw@rti.rti.org (Bruce Wright) writes: 1) If you distribute just the archive, then the end-user will have to get a copy of PKZIP/PKUNZIP or ARC or one of the other utilities that understand these formats. [...] True. A pain in the neck (or lower down) for people who don't have them yet. 2) If you distribute both the archive _and_ the unpacking software, you will in all probability have to pay a licensing fee to the company that makes the unpacking software. [...] There are "free" versions of UnZip available, but for non-commercial use only. Writing their own unpacker would probably not be a major task, since the format is specified quite well in the zip application notes. However, LHARC type sources are widely available with no strings attached. They could use these with slight modifications, but then they would not be "standard" anymore... -- /* * * Otto J. Makela * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */ /* Phone: +358 41 613 847, BBS: +358 41 211 562 (USR HST/V.32, 24h/d) */ /* Mail: Kauppakatu 1 B 18, SF-40100 Jyvaskyla, Finland, EUROPE */ /* * * Computers Rule 01001111 01001011 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */