Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!mintaka!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!news.funet.fi!jyu.fi!jyu.fi!otto From: otto@kipuna.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) Newsgroups: comp.compression Subject: Re: Is PKZIP for Unix available now? Message-ID: Date: 15 Apr 91 16:36:03 GMT References: <1991Apr5.085924.15666@nntp-server.caltech.edu> <1991Apr8.195351.4783@netcom.COM> <1991Apr9.182235.12575@nntp-server.caltech.edu> Sender: news@jyu.fi (News articles) Organization: Turing Police, Criminal AI section Lines: 15 In-Reply-To: madler@nntp-server.caltech.edu's message of 9 Apr 91 18: 22:35 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: kipuna.jyu.fi In article <1991Apr9.182235.12575@nntp-server.caltech.edu> madler@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Mark Adler) writes: In article 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. It wasn't sooo much better to start out with, since one had pkpak (arc files) to compare it against :-) -- /* * * 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 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */