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In article <1993Jan12.052426.9168@uwasa.fi> ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:

> ...  PKZIP is the dominant current standard.

The dominant standard, I think, is something that can be decompressed
with pkunzip 1.10. If someone comes out with something which can't
be decompressed by pkunzip 1.10, then it is no longer the dominant
standard. Just because the files produced by this program have
an extension of 'ZIP' (a disservice, it seems to me, since people
will mistake these files for files which conform to the dominant
standard decompression program, namely pkunzip 1.10) and comes from
the infamous PKWARE software works doesn't mean a thing relative to
the question of conforming to prevailing standards. pkzip 2.04c is
fundamentally a new product having little relation to prevailing
standards, and it should be viewed that way. Or perhaps it should
be viewed somewhat more negatively, for absolutely destroying
that 'standard' meaning that we previously could infer from the
commonly used notion of 'zip file'.

I would also point out that PKWARE has sold libraries for some time
now, and that the 1.10 'standard' is built in to some number of
commercial programs, such as Lotus Magellan. I'm not sure exactly
how to think about these, but again, files with an extension
of .ZIP which make these programs bomb don't seem like much
of a service to anyone.