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In article <93006.36581.J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM>, J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM writes:
|>    I've been reading about the problems and rumors surrounding PKZip 2.04 and
|> PKZip 3.05.  Some say they have viruses, some have said there is a trojan in
|> it, and so on.  My question is this:
|>
|>    I've had PK 1.1 for two years now.  There have been no problems with it.
|> Why, in light of all problems and rumors flying around, would anyone consider
|> abandoning the old and trusty version for one which may be bad?  Even if the
|> new versions were clean, the peace of mind I'd lose while running it wouldbe
|> rather significant.
|>
|>    What wonderful new advances are in the newer versions (1.93, 2.04, 3.05)
|> of PKZip?  Better compression, perhaps?  How much better?  Or is it just a
|> desire to have the "latest release" regardless of its impact (or potential
|> impact)?
|>
 Tim,

My understanding of, at least 1.93, is that it now matches coding so 
that a zip is transportable across platforms.  If you use 1.93 and zip
something (say a TIFF file or text) and then send it to someone on a
Unix box, he can use ZIP 5.0 (the Unix version) to unzip it cleanly.
This is not true of PKZIP which is restricted to PC's only.  ZIP has
been ported to Unix, VM, Mac, and many others making compressed file
exchange more like it always should have been, transparent to original
platform.  This is especially important with graphic files which can be
readily used under any of the platforms (unlike executables which rely
on operating systems).

Using both 1.1 and 1.93 of PKZIP, I have found no decrease in sizing or
increase in speeds - only compatibility to where I don't care who zipped
it, I can now unzip it!  And, no bugs or virus's in this one (don't know
about 2.x or 3.x).

Greg
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