From PM's point of view, the zip battle may be a moot point. The battle to be the 'standard' Zip will presumably force Aladdin to pick one format or the other for integration into Stuffit. Since PowerMail simply leverages the Stuffit engine for it's compression abilities, it follows that Aladdin's choice will decide which Zip format PM uses, not CTM.
Rick -- G4/500 MHz (DP) :: OS X 10.2.6 :: 768 MB RAM PM 4.1.3 :: 3 pane mode <www.sharkattack.co.uk> -- Original message: Received from Wayne Brissette on 18/8/03 at 12:17 pm >>That brings me to a question that I have lingereing for a while now: >>Modern incarnations of Stuffit all have the capability of creating >>Zip-archives. >>Could we implement an option to use Zip alongside of Sit? It makes it a >>lot easier to communicate directly from withing PM. >> >>Mirko > >Just as an FYI, there are two versions of the PC ZIP format currently >fighting it out. There was a really good article about the issues and >problems created by this in a recent CNET article. If I can find the >article, I'll post the link.
