Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!news.funet.fi!jyu.fi!jyu.fi!otto From: otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) Newsgroups: comp.compression Subject: Re: Is PKZIP for Unix available now? Message-ID: Date: 9 Apr 91 09:45:57 GMT References: <1991Apr5.020101.12632@math.ufl.edu> <1991Apr5.085924.15666@nntp-server.caltech.edu> <1991Apr8.195351.4783@netcom.COM> Sender: news@jyu.fi (News articles) Organization: Turing Police, Criminal AI section Lines: 23 In-Reply-To: ergo@netcom.COM's message of 8 Apr 91 19: 53:51 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: jyu.fi In article <1991Apr8.195351.4783@netcom.COM> ergo@netcom.COM (Isaac Rabinovitch) writes: [re Unix zip] So why not release it? Taking hours to extract an archive may be painful, but not as painful as not be able to extract it at all. Beside, most Unix users would be people trading files with PC users who don't have ARC -- and all they would have to do is just not use implosion. But unzip is available for Unix, what we are talking about here is something for creating zip files on Unix ! Look for portable unzip at simtel20 and mirror archives. Does anybody register the irony in this problem? PKZIP caught on because ARC was painfully slow. ARC was painfully slow because that was the only way (or so SEA thought) to keep it portable.... PKZip caught on in the BBS circles because SEA got so obnoxious (or so it was percieved, at least) about their licencing. -- /* * * 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 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */