Hi
10 Jul 2001, "L.D. Best" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 1. Pkzip/Pkunzip 2.50 has been out a while now ;-)
LB> You see, up until the day Phil Katz died the last version he wrote and
LB> released was 2.04g ... I can recall that I checked Simtel Net the day
LB> I learned of his death, to see if he had sent up a newer version
LB> before he "left the system." He hadn't ...
LB> So, either 2.50 is one of the contaminated phoney programs that was
LB> circulating around almost 10 years ago ...
it is not !
PKZIP (R) FAST! Create/Update Utility Version 2.50 03-01-1999
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LB> or it is written by someone other than Katz, someone who wants to
LB> make it 'more windows friendly' and who will eventually reduce pkzip
LB> to rubbish. :<
I don't know were you take your accusations from.
But 2.50 was released a long time ago (1999) and there was a discussion
about it here. (and I remember that YOU have posted something about the new
version)
It is an official version.
And it is a DOS version, and the only windows friendlyness is that it
supports LFN when run in a DOS windows of windows.
(and furthermore it also can utilize DPMI which makes it compress a bit
better.)
See also:
http://www.pkware.com/catalog/zipdos.html
LB> l.d.
CU, Ricsi
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