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Re: PKZip 2.0?

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From: Larrie Simon Carr
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1992 01:53
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In article <rdippold.712952327@cancun> rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) writes:
>mmeltzer@wam.umd.edu writes:
>>Has this version been released to the public yet?  I downloaded a copy  
>>from a local BBS, but it came zipped instead of self-extracting, and I'm  
>>not sure if it's trashware or not.
>
>It's either a PKZip 1.93a hack or a trojan.  Don't use it.  There will
>be no version 2.0, 2.01, 2.1, or 2.2...  
>-- 

Excuse me?  Why no 2.0, etc version?  Are they asymtotically approaching
2? :)

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Larrie Carr                 
Engineering Science               (604) 291-4451  
Simon Fraser University           (604) 298-1050
British Columbia, Canada          larrie@sfu.ca
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