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From: c60b-1eq@e260-1c.berkeley.edu (Noam Mendelson)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: help
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Date: 14 Apr 91 01:32:43 GMT
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In article <kaaG$jho1@cs.psu.edu> cho@sol4.cs.psu.edu (Sehyeong Cho) writes:
>>In article <7323@munnari.oz.au> ksiew@ecr.mu.oz.au (Kok-Hsien SIEW) writes:
>>>I am new to this usenet area so please dont be too hard on me.
>>>Questions:
>>>   1) Is there a pkzip/pkunzip for unix (main frame in my uni)
>I had the same question. I searched (maybe not hard enough) one of the
>ftp sites. There were arc and zoo for unix, but no zip.
>Does anyone know where it hides?

Allow me to point out the subtle differences between compression programs:
ZOO and LHa (LHArc too) are free programs for which source code is
publicly available.  ARC is an outdated straight-Lempel-Ziv compression
program which is well outdated.  Phil Katz intended ZIP as a money-making
scheme for the MSDOS market.  The source code is not available.  The
ZIP file format is, however, and hence the presence of UNZIP programs.
Theoretically, one could write a compatible ZIPping procedure, but they'll
have to devise all their own compression code (meaning we'll probably
never see one).

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