In the Wintel space I was a user of PKZIP http://www.pkware.com/ for DOS when it was originally released and upgraded 4 or 5 times before jumping ship to WinZIP http://www.winzip.com/ which seemed superior to the PKZip for Windows offering at the time. Today I am very happy with WinRAR http://www.rarlabs.com/ which offered advantages like transparent support for tar/gzip combo files and for the RAR format which had better compression.
I have to say that support and technical quality was never at issue with PKWARE PKZIP but the pricing and upgrade policies were not as generous as the competition. Anyone should look at the commercial tools or the excellent free tools like 7-zip http://www.7-zip.org/ and make their own evaluation. I don't expect that the ZIP support built into Windows is sufficient for anyone except the most undemanding of users. Best Regards, Sam Knutson, GEICO Performance and Availability Management mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (office) 301.986.3574 "Think big, act bold, start simple, grow fast..." -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 7:00 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ZIP SOFTWARE for Mainframe >I suspect that things went downhill when Phil Katz (Z"l) died ... No. Support sucked from day one! -teD <> ==================== This email/fax message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution of this email/fax is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy all paper and electronic copies of the original message. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
