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From: chrisl@caen.engin.umich.edu (Chris Lang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: PkaWare/PkaZip
Message-ID: <490b070f.1a5bf@moth.engin.umich.edu>
Date: 7 Mar 90 03:14:00 GMT
References: <8930@shlump.nac.dec.com> <14146@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Organization: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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In article <14146@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> dalka@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (kenneth.j.dalka) writes:
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>I happen to like to new pkazip. I find it amazing that someone
>who has lived in the MSDOS world for so long could write something
>that has such an amiga-like interface on the first try. 

It's not so surprising when you read the credits and see that the Amiga 
version was done by someone else....presumably someone with previous Amiga
experience, namely Dennis Hoffman.

>                      I have complaints about a lot of tools and
>if the worst thing I can think of about pkazip is that it has a
>user-friendly graphical interface while lacking an "experts" CLI
>interface, then pkazip is far above the compitetion.

It does have a very nice Intuitionalized interface, BUT...I really wish the
time had been spent on something that could better benefit from it.  An
archiver is almost one of those tools like "dir" that you expect to have
right there when you need it...PKAZip definitely is not "right there" when
you need it.  I hope that, instead of taking peoples' remarks about the
program negatively, the PKWare people take the added effort to put in a 
command line interface...THEN they will probably see the praise and money
the product would deserve.

 -Chris
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