Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!jarthur!nntp-server.caltech.edu!madler From: madler@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Mark Adler) Newsgroups: comp.compression Subject: Re: Is PKZIP for Unix available now? Message-ID: <1991Apr18.231758.17842@nntp-server.caltech.edu> Date: 18 Apr 91 23:17:58 GMT References: <1991Apr9.182235.12575@nntp-server.caltech.edu> <1991Apr16.154104.14449@ukpoit.co.uk> Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Lines: 14 In article <1991Apr16.154104.14449@ukpoit.co.uk> alan@ukpoit.co.uk (Alan Barclay) writes: >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. As well as Zip for Unix--in fact, Phil and another person at PKWare helped us identify PKUNZIP oddities so our Zipper would be compatible. (PKUNZIP has some implementation compromises for speed that make for rather odd restrictions in what it will accept, beyond what is documented for the implode format in the APPNOTE.TXT that comes with PKZIP.) It seems that Phil is maintaining this "nice" factor. Mark Adler madler@pooh.caltech.edu