Why is pkz193a.zip so hard to find?

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3 total messages Started by John Calvert Sun, 24 Jan 1993 23:43

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Author: John Calvert
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 23:43

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I'll being following all the problems with pkz204c.zip, and decided
to sit it out. Then I thought I'd check out 193a, which I did find.
But it isn't on Simtel, or Oak. Could anyone tell me why?

Re: Why is pkz193a.zip so hard to find?

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Author: Samuel Ko
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 01:10

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 jcalvert@scorpio.ic.cmc.ca (John Calvert) writes:

>I'll being following all the problems with pkz204c.zip, and decided
>to sit it out. Then I thought I'd check out 193a, which I did find.
>But it isn't on Simtel, or Oak. Could anyone tell me why?
>

Try /pc/exec-pc at ftp.cso.uiuc.edu ... You can find almost all valid
releases of pkzip/unzip ...

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Re: Why is pkz193a.zip so hard to find?

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Author: Timo Salmi
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 05:01

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In article <1993Jan24.234347.22733@venus.ic.cmc.ca> jcalvert@scorpio.ic.cmc.ca (John Calvert) writes:
>I'll being following all the problems with pkz204c.zip, and decided
>to sit it out. Then I thought I'd check out 193a, which I did find.
>But it isn't on Simtel, or Oak. Could anyone tell me why?

On top of the standard reasons (the encryption hassle), 1.93A wasn't
really intended for "production runs". 

(How could anyone of us have know what a drag PKZIP 2 was going to
be first as persistent vaporware, and then coming out as buggy as
2.04C did). 

   All the best, Timo

P.S.  Followups to comp.comression since I somewhat changed the
subject. 

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