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From: madler@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Mark Adler)
Newsgroups: comp.compression
Subject: Re: Is PKZIP for Unix available now?
Message-ID: <1991Apr9.182235.12575@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 9 Apr 91 18:22:35 GMT
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In article <OTTO.91Apr9114557@tukki.jyu.fi> otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) writes:
>PKZip caught on in the BBS circles because SEA got so obnoxious (or so it
>was percieved, at least) about their licencing.

I suspect the fact that PKZIP was much faster and compressed much better
than SEA ARC must have had *something* to do with it.

Mark Adler
madler@pooh.caltech.edu