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From: a112@mindlink.UUCP (Greg Bastow)
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Subject: PkaWare/PkaZip
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Message #10130 "Amiga Messages" (RECEIVED)
Date: 16-Feb-90 16:09
From: Phil Katz
To:   Harvey Harbicht
Subj: ZIPWARP
Next Reply is Message #10138

>>P.S. Is there ever going to be a ZIPWARP? Or an option on ZIP to
treat the entire disk as one file?

Well, that would be nice, but at the current rate I doubt it.  To
date,  I can count the total number of PKAZIP registrations on my
fingers!   The writing of PKAZIP took a considerable amount of my
time  and  expense.   PKAZIP  does  everything  that  our  MS-DOS
software   PKZIP,   PKUNZIP,   PKZFIND  and  StupenDOS  can,  and
somethings  that  can't  even  be  done  with  any  of our MS-DOS
software,  with  a  registration cost less than PKZIP/PKUNZIP for
MS-DOS alone!

Yet,  the  response  from the Amiga community in general has been
one of discontent, criticism, paranoia, hysteria, misinformation,
and  complaint.   I  have  just  spent a bunch of money to buy am
Amiga  at  PKWARE  so  we  can fully support PKAZIP, yet with the
registrations  received so far for PKAZIP, I can barely buy a few
boxes of diskettes.

If  this  is all the incentive there is for one to write software
for  the  Amiga,  then  I think that ZIPWARP, CLI versions, AREXX
interfaces  and  whatever other programs everyone wants but won't
register  are  a  long,  long  way  off.  I have plenty of MS-DOS
projects in the works which when they are released, won't slap me
in the face.

>Phil>



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With this type of repsonce of PkaZip for the Amiga, we may never see all the
updates that we want. I for one am about to 'register' my copy, to support this
software, as I do want to see updates to it.

Greg Bastow   / Amass For the Amiga
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