Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!know!sdd.hp.com!think.com!mintaka!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ukc!visionware.co.uk!ukpoit!alan From: alan@ukpoit.co.uk (Alan Barclay) Newsgroups: comp.compression Subject: Re: Is PKZIP for Unix available now? Message-ID: <1991Apr16.154104.14449@ukpoit.co.uk> Date: 16 Apr 91 15:41:04 GMT References: <1991Apr9.182235.12575@nntp-server.caltech.edu> Organization: iT - The Information Technology Business Of The Post Office Lines: 22 In article otto@kipuna.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) writes: >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 :-) Yes but because of the court case Phil coundn't sell pkarc any more, he renamed it to pkpak (3.61) and then released pkzip. A lot of BBS people liked Phil, and he released the file format into the public domain, allowing people to make third party .ZIP tools, (EG unzip for unix), and this 'nice' factor encouraged people to use his tools. -- Alan Barclay iT | E-mail : alan@ukpoit.uucp Barker Lane | BANG-STYLE : .....!ukc!ukpoit!alan CHESTERFIELD S40 1DY | VOICE : +44 246 214241