Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!iconsys!caeco!i-core!pete
From: pete@i-core.UUCP (Pete Ashdown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: PKZip Amiga arrives
Message-ID: <1990Jan11.062433.27699@i-core.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jan 90 06:24:33 GMT
Organization: Bitsko's Bar & Grill, Public Access, Salt Lake City, UT
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Just got PKAZip 1.0 today.  This is the full release of the Amiga PKZip and
it looks rather nice.  It supports compression as well as decompression
(unlike the prereleases) and it does do all the techniques supported by
MeSsy-DOS PKZip 1.02.

What is really nice about it is the fact that the whole thing is
intuitionized, which IMHO makes it a better program than all the other
compressors combined.  Its interface looks GOOD too!  No standard slop
windows here.  Everything has a NeXTish look to it.  It also has online help
and a pallette control.  I think it blows the MS-DOS version away.

Only a couple of complaints.  I wish I could see SOMETHING happening when
it is compressing and decompressing.  A bar going across a requester would
be swell (ala StuffIt).  Otherwise it just shows the word "Compressing" and
then changes it to "Compressed" when it is done.  Second, the Imploding
really drags.  It seems much faster on my AT (10 mhz).  However, I'm sure
they'll optimize this sooner or later.  What's important is that it works
and it is as good if not better than LHArc.

I hope we can toss ARC and LHARC now (yeah sure....).