PKZIP 2.04c

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2 total messages Started by Rob Fri, 08 Jan 1993 13:33

#778

Author: Rob
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 13:33

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Word has it that the long awaited PKZ204c.EXE has been released.
The file has been downloaded from PKWare's BBS and placed on
wuarchive in the pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS/utils directory.

There was a message on the Windows list, supposedly from PKWare,
confirming that this is the official release.

Anyone have additional info?


Rob
C08926RC@WUVMD
Washington University

Re: PKZIP 2.04c

#780

Author: Andrew Lewis
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 05:28

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For the most information, you could trying reviewing comp.compression. 
There has been a virus scare due to old versions of Norton AV (and perhaps
some other virus-detection utilities) reporting a false positive on the
pklited executables.

There are more serious problems, though.  Comp.compression regulars are
collecting a bug list; sadly, it already has too many entries.  From memory:

without command line switches [possibly with, too?], the new version
crashes windows 3.1 and OS/2 DOS boxes.  This is apparently a problem with
DPMI support.

the string COMPRESSION=maximal in the manual should read =maximum

multi-volume archiving may only be done to physical floppies, and uses
identical filenames for all members of the volume

multi-volume archives which are slightly more than one disk in size do not
reliably compress/uncompress.  This is apparently a boundary problem, and
I do not know where the boundary is, exactly.

volume labels cannot be stored in an archive

There may be others, as well

Andrew M. Lewis
Internet: alewis@gibbs.oit.unc.edu
Bitnet: lewis@unc
V derevniu, k tetke, v glushch', v Saratov!

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