Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!nic.csu.net!beach.csulb.edu!csus.edu!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!caen!hellgate.utah.edu!fcom.cc.utah.edu!npd.novell.com!newsun!tporczyk From: tporczyk@na.excelan.com (Tony Porczyk) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Windows installation disk compression? Message-ID: <1991Feb10.193254.12810@novell.com> Date: 11 Feb 91 17:45:15 GMT Sender: news@novell.com ( Lines: 25 The News Manager) Nntp-Posting-Host: na Reply-To: tporczyk@na.excelan.com (Tony Porczyk) Organization: Novell, Inc. San Jose, California References: <12281.27a9a905@ecs.umass.edu> <1991Feb7.192957.7986@sunee.waterloo.edu> <1991Feb8.041654.16071@rti.rti.org> Date: Sun, 10 Feb 1991 19:32:54 GMT In article <1991Feb8.041654.16071@rti.rti.org> bcw@rti.rti.org (Bruce Wright) writes: ->In article <1991Feb7.192957.7986@sunee.waterloo.edu>, gpsteffl@sunee.waterloo.edu (Glenn Patrick Steffler) writes: ->> In article waynet@wiffle.techbook.com (Wayne Tilton) writes: ->> >>*To any Microsoft people out there: In future programs, how about using ->> >>a standard compression format like .zip or .arc, which would give better ->>> [lots of stuff deleted for brevity] ->A couple of points about this issue of using .ZIP or .ARC -format ->files for distributing software: -> 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 -> [stuff deleted] -> 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. I don't 3) distribute self-extracting archive. The next 2 pages do not apply. Tony