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Re: PKZip 2.0?

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From: Ron Dippold
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 02:21
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aabdalla@pollux.usc.edu (Ahmed Abd-Allah) writes:
>>Because 2.0 - 2.2 all have "appeared" on their own. To try to avoid
>>[further] confusion, PKWare isn't going to release any PKZip with any of
>>those version numbers.
>>				-Dave LeCompte
> 
>Not so fast...  In Dr. Dobbs Journal, Aug 92, page 4, there is an ad from
>PKWare announcing the release of PKZip version 2.0 ...

That ad's been out forever... there have been reports of ads in the
latest issues (August is about 2 months ago, isn't it?) which don't
give a version number.
-- 
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