I haven't seen winzip in ages. If anything, winRar appear to be way more
widespread.

anyway, I did test the downloads with a fresh install of the latest
downloadable winzip back when I uploaded the files, since I'm not that big a
prick, and it worked just ok.


On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 10:57 PM, James Curran <[email protected]>wrote:

> um.. because we shouldn't be telling our users what tool they need to
> use to open a supposed standard file format.
>
> WinZip is (de facto, barring new work from PKWare) the cannonical
> reader of Zip file.  If it cannot read a ZIP file, it should be
> assumed that the problem is with the file, not with WinZip.
>
> This is essentially the argument between SEA & PKWare over ARC files
> that led to the creation of ZIPs in the first place.
>
> Truth,
>     James
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Ken Egozi <[email protected]> wrote:
> > dude, why do you care? 7zip is cheaper, faster, weigh less, and does
> more,
> > for infinitely less money than either Winzip or Winrar.
>
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