Re: $$ Is pkz204c worth the $$ ?

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From: Keith Petersen
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 04:30

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rmarks@MDC.Unisys.COM (Richard Marks) writes:
>I note that the Shareware price for pkz204c is $47.  This
>is a lot of money for a marginally better compression program.
>
>Lets keep things in perspective, all this does is implement
>a rather old compression and librarian program.  There are
>a lot of other such programs out there that work real well.
>Also I have spent a heck of a lot less for a bunch more
>shareware functionality.  So is this thing worth $47 ?
>My answer is no.

Because of this, and because of the bugs, some are advocating that we
change to another archving method.  Why are you ignoring the free ZIP
and UNZIP from the Info-ZIP folks?  Is it because the program is free?
Maybe they should charge $20 for it so you would consider it. 

PKWare is NOT the only game in town.

Follow-ups to comp.compression only, please.

Keith
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From: w8sdz@tacom-emh1.army.mil (Keith Petersen)
Subject: Re: $$ Is pkz204c worth the $$ ?
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