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From: jte@sai.UUCP (John Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: PkaWare/PkaZip
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Date: 8 Mar 90 17:30:25 GMT
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I think PKware did a excellent job in their porting to the Amiga. The interface
is very Amiga, unlike most ports of popular MSdos packages. I think that
workbench users will be very happy with it. There are many users that do not
use the CLI at all. PKzip is so popular in the MSdos world that at lease it
makes it easy to transfer packed files to and from the Amiga.

What is missing, as many has said, is a CLI mode and also the self extracting
capability of the MSdos version. In fact if they were to provide self extracting
capability they would have a one up on many Amiga compression routines since
you do not need a separate program to decompress, you just execute the archive
and it extracts itself!