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From: malpass@vlsi.ll.mit.edu (Don Malpass)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: ARC/ZOO/ZIP for comp.binaries.ibm.pc
Message-ID: <279@vlsi.ll.mit.edu>
Date: 3 Mar 89 22:43:03 GMT
References: <240be391@ralf>
Reply-To: malpass@ll-vlsi.arpa.UUCP (Don Malpass)
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington MA
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In article <240be391@ralf> Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU writes:
>In article <480@skep2.ATT.COM>, wcs@skep2.ATT.COM (Bill.Stewart.[ho95c]) writes
>}Does PK promise he won't change the format on us, so we don't
>}        end up with the old problem of PKZIP ver n-1 being
>}        unable to read files made by PKZIP ver n?  
>PK is not alone in this.  ARC v4 couldn't read ARC v5 archives, and ARC v6 can
>create archives that are incompatible with v5.

You didn't answer his question, and it IS one of the real hangups with
PK that makes ZOO a better choice - the COMMITMENT to compatibility.
It is an important question.  What's the answer?  The other important
one is: Will UNIX ZIP be available and if so when?  Until then, I
wouldn't even touch it with tongs.
-- 
Don Malpass   [malpass@LL-vlsi.arpa],  [malpass@gandalf.ll.mit.edu] 
  Have you noticed how little difference there often seems to be
    between ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE and REAL STUPIDITY?