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From: marty1@hounx.ATT.COM (M.B.BRILLIANT)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: pk(un)zip
Message-ID: <1290@hounx.ATT.COM>
Date: 20 Mar 89 15:10:08 GMT
References: <544@babbage.acc.virginia.edu>
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From article <544@babbage.acc.virginia.edu>, by wfp5p@euclid.acc.Virginia.EDU (William F. Pemberton):
> ....  SEA has basically said (with the suit against PK) that
> they do not want anybody but themselves writing programs that do the same job
> as ARC.  As I see it, if zip takes over as the "standard" then we will have
> to keep something like PkArc around for a while (since we will still run into
> and "old" arc file from time to time) .....

It doesn't even look as though we are allowed to keep PKARC.  Maybe
just PKXARC, and then only if we use it only to read PKARC files, not
SeaArc files.  Can I use ARCE?  I'm confused.

Is NoGate's PAK legal?  It's cheap, reasonably compatible (except that
it can't read PK's comments), and is supposed to read and write all
kinds of ARC and PAK files.  I was going to send them a registration,
but now you're raising doubts about their legitimacy.

M. B. Brilliant					Marty
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