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Article #11667

Re: PKZIP V3.05 problems

#11667
From: 20lim
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 17:24
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In article <1993Jan7.133737.19355@athena.mit.edu>, dmsilev@athena.mit.edu (Daniel M Silevitch) writes:
> In article <SLAMBERG.93Jan7150650@mato.cc.lut.fi> slamberg@lut.fi (Samu Lamberg) writes:
>>
> [deleted]
> Incorrect. Version 2.04c was officially released just a few days ago, and
> is now available at garbo, among other places. Features improved compression
> algorithm and support for multi-volume archives.
> 
> Daniel Silevitch                                dmsilev@athena.mit.edu
> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
> 
I got that yesterday too. But the self-extract .EXE was corrupted! It 
seems that a bbs called DELPHI [can I state BBS names here?] included
an "advertisement" in it. And it failed the AV check. I thought that 
comments wouldn't bother av codes but I guess it does. :)
C.

THIS IS A REEDIT
I was just reading another newsgroup and someone claims that the 
problems lies in using PKZIP 1.93 to unzip it. :)
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 /o Christopher Lim             "SiGNaTuRe FiLeS aRe aGaiNST MY ReLiGioN  o/@
|o Western Michigan University   ReLiGioNS aRe aGaiNST MY SiGNaTuRe FiLe"o|
|o X90LIM3@GW.WMICH.EDU          pc   FLAMES > NUL                       o|
|o LIM@BOOMER.CC.WMICH.EDU       unix flames > /dev/nul                  o|
|o                               mac  _sorry_you_can't_do_that           o|
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References: <1993Jan4.184516.3492@digi.lonestar.org> <4860@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us> <SLAMBERG.93Jan7150650@mato.cc.lut.fi> <1993Jan7.133737.19355@athena.mit.edu>

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!wupost!gumby!wmichgw!20lim
From: 20lim@gw.wmich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: PKZIP V3.05 problems
Message-ID: <1993Jan8.122456.7156@gw.wmich.edu>
Date: 8 Jan 93 12:24:56 EST
References: <1993Jan4.184516.3492@digi.lonestar.org> <4860@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us> <SLAMBERG.93Jan7150650@mato.cc.lut.fi> <1993Jan7.133737.19355@athena.mit.edu>
Organization: Western Michigan University
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Summary: PKZIP  virus real