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markh@squirrel.LABS.TEK.COM (Mark Henderson) writes:

> Registration for PKZIP is $47;
> ARC 7.0 sells for $49.95; so they're comparably priced.
          ^^^^^
I take this to mean that ARC 7.0 is a commercial product?

> Lawsuit or not,
> I'll use the product that makes most efficient use of limited
> resources: disk space and transmission time.

Efficiency, although important, is a lesser consideration to me than
portability. With ARC 7.0 a commercial product, I have little or no
guarantee that the recipient of my compressed file will be able to
unpack it.

> Can one really be confident that if things had gone differently that
> we would have even better utilities?  At least I can't.

Knowing Phil Katz's work record, I can! His version of ARC (which scared
SEA into starting this whole mess) was _already_ superior. Hairsbreadth
superiority or not, I still stick with ZIP. Maybe, _if_ I start seeing
_vast_ numbers of 7.0-compressed ARCfiles, I'll change my mind, but I
wouldn't be holding my breath.
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