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From: madler@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Mark Adler)
Newsgroups: comp.compression
Subject: Re: Is PKZIP for Unix available now?
Summary: No.
Message-ID: <1991Apr5.085924.15666@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 5 Apr 91 08:59:24 GMT
References: <1991Apr5.020101.12632@math.ufl.edu>
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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In article <1991Apr5.020101.12632@math.ufl.edu> wang@math.ufl.edu writes:
>We have been talking about that the PKZIP package for Unix would soon be
>released. Has it been released yet?

Well, it's not PKZIP, just Zip.  PK has provided some assistance with
bizarre restrictions of explosion in PKUNZIP, but that's about all.
It will be free, rather than shareware.  (We haven't figured out yet
whether to make it public domain, GNUish, X-windowish, or what.)

And, ahem, no, it's not released yet.  Real Soon Now.  It works, but
implosion is too slow.  It is at 0.7 now.  The plan is to get VMS
support in for 0.8, faster implosion for 0.9, and then get that all
ironed out for the first release as 1.0.  As for a time estimate, I'm
not doing the implosion, so I can't say.  I'm hoping before summer
starts.

Mark Adler
madler@pooh.caltech.edu