Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc:17881 comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d:641 Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!iuvax!rutgers!topaz.rutgers.edu!msmith From: msmith@topaz.rutgers.edu (Mark Robert Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: PK361.EXE Message-ID: Date: 8 Aug 88 23:49:44 GMT Reply-To: msmith@topaz.rutgers.edu (Mark Robert Smith) Organization: M. R. Smith Consulting, Tenafly, NJ Lines: 25 WEll, Phil has released PKPAK 3.61, with the obvious name change and a bug fix. It seems that big bad SEA forced him to change the name, AND forced him to abandon even the compression algorithms that he was using. Now, he has until early 1989 to develop a new program. I'm gonna vote with my wallet. I have destroyed all SEA programs that I have, and I am sending Phil some bucks. In the docs for this, he requests the usual $20 if you like the program, and for $47 or more, he'll send you the new program when it comes out. I'm sending in at least $47, maybe more. From a poor college student, that's a statement. I urge you all to do the same. I also urge Rahul Dhesi to switch to Phil's new standard as soon as it is available. I also urge SIMTEL20 to convert its archives to the new standard. We need to show SEA that their kind of competition through litigation is unacceptable, and that competition through improvement is the only acceptable form of competition. Mark -- Mark Smith (alias Smitty) "Be careful when looking into the distance, 61 Tenafly Road that you do not miss what is right under your nose." Tenafly, NJ 07670 {backbone}!rutgers!topaz.rutgers.edu!msmith msmith@topaz.rutgers.edu Bill and Opus in '88!!!