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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PKWARE "UnZIPs" New Compression Software (CORRECTION)
Message-ID: <13155@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 16 Feb 89 15:35:44 GMT
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In article <868@ur-cc.UUCP> akk2@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Atul Kacker) writes:

| I just happened to be going through my collection of PC software and found
| that I have a program called 'ZIP' that bears the copyright
| 
| Copyright (c) 1985,1986 by Edward V. Dong
| 
| that among other things has a squeeze/unsqueeze feature.  I wonder if Mr.Katz
| is aware of said program.  I don't know much about the legal aspects but I'm
| sure Mr. Katz would not want another name recognition fiasco.

  I don't think Phil has a sense of self-preservation. He could have
used .PKA (Phil Katz Archive) format and not interfered with anything
existing. Instead he chose ZIP, which has been used for at least two
programs, one of which you mentioned does compression.

  I thought Dean Cooper was working on this, and he has better sense.
His archive program produces .DWC files. If the DWC archiver had
continued to evolve and been made more portable it might have pushed ARC
and zoo and zip into the background.
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me