Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!umich!vela!rigel.acs.oakland.edu!w8sdz From: w8sdz@rigel.acs.oakland.edu (Keith Petersen) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: help Message-ID: <5886@vela.acs.oakland.edu> Date: 15 Apr 91 21:37:32 GMT References: <1991Apr14.013243.29075@agate.berkeley.edu> <5863@vela.acs.oakland.edu> <1991Apr14.090235.1151@agate.berkeley.edu> Sender: news@vela.acs.oakland.edu Organization: The SIMTEL20 Archives Lines: 25 c60b-1eq@e260-1c.berkeley.edu (Noam Mendelson) writes: >w8sdz@rigel.acs.oakland.edu (Keith Petersen) writes: >>A Beta test version of ZIP is being tested right now. It's not ready >>for public release however. > >Written by Phil Katz? In any case, there are more efficient compression >programs available, such as Yoshi's LHa--a promising high-speed, high- >compression program for which source code is already publicly available >[...] >The prospect of a free (it will be free, I assume, since the source code >will have to be distributed) ZIP package is interesting, however. I guess I wasn't clear enough. The ZIP package for minicomputers and mainframes which the Info-ZIP folks are working on is *not* written by Phil Katz. It will be freely distributable C language source code when the Beta testing is finished. When it is released, it will be posted to the appropriate Usenet sources newsgroups as well as to FTP sites like SIMTEL20. Keith -- Keith Petersen Maintainer of SIMTEL20's MSDOS, MISC & CP/M archives [IP address 26.2.0.74] Internet: w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil or w8sdz@vela.acs.oakland.edu Uucp: uunet!umich!vela!w8sdz BITNET: w8sdz@OAKLAND