Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 15:19:16 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Mark Habersack <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
To: Jens Jedamzik <jedamzik AT eevmic DOT uni-paderborn DOT de>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: MSDOS Unzip Program
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On 28 Jul 1996, Jens Jedamzik wrote:

>Hey, what's the noise about?
>EVERYBODY uses PKunzip? Me NOT!
Me neither

>PKunzip is SHAREWARE, whereas ZIP and UNZIP are FREEWARE!
>UNZIP.EXE is, for instance, found in the SimTel/MSDOS directory
>at all places mirroring it. With UNZIP, You won't have to deal with switches
>as in PKunzip's '-d'.
>ZIP.EXE can be retrieved by downloading 'ZIP20X.ZIP' from the 
>same site, You got UNZIP from.
>The main advantage of ZIP and UNZIP vs PKzip and PKunzip is:
>1.) You get them free!
>2.) There's 50% less of tipping to be done for unzipping a 
>     package including directoy structures.
3.) You have LFNs if you recompile the sources under DJGPP V2 and use it under
Win95. Try unpack RHIDE sources without it! Or maybe use WinZip32 (almost 1MB
of soft and no cmdline) - no thanks!

Cya, Mark

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