Re: PKZip > 1.1: Why bother?!?!

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From: Fridrik Skulason
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 21:31

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J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM writes:

>   What wonderful new advances are in the newer versions (1.93, 2.04, 3.05)
>of PKZip?  Better compression, perhaps?

Probably, yes...but maybe not that much better.  The primary reason to have
the new version is of course so that you can handle files you might receive
from somebody else, if they are packed with the new version.

-frisk
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From: frisk@complex.is (Fridrik Skulason)
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Subject: Re: PKZip > 1.1: Why bother?!?!
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