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From: lehmann AT mathematik DOT th-darmstadt DOT de (Alexander Lehmann)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: MSDOS Unzip Program
Date: 29 Jul 1996 17:19:12 GMT
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iNFiK <randolp1 AT ix DOT netcom DOT com> wrote:
: > 
: > I ported the unzip and zip programs to djgpp.  They are more reliable
: > than pkzip which is whi I did the port.
: > 

: how can your unzip program be more reliable htan PKware's unzip program?
: Pk*zip is the REAL and 1st zip program that eveyone uses (well .. dos 
: users anyway).  But you may be right if you're talking about 
: error-freeness, but not compatability with other .ZIPs.
: =)

Actually, my experiences with freeware was in most cases that they
were better than the commercial `orginals' they immitate (GNU cc is
certainly one example for that).

As for free zip/unzip: If you ever have tried to unzip a zip that
contained unix names including more than one dot or text files in unix
or Mac EOL convention, you might know what I think of PKZIP/PKUNZIP
(plus the silly -d option). Also, unzip is much more flexible with
minor format errors. And unzip is much better tested than pkunzip,
since anyone can search for bugs. There were decompression errors both
in unzip and in pkunzip, but the shareware pkunzip hasn't fixed them
yet, AFAIK (unless there is a newer version than 2.04g available that
I have missed).


bye, Alexander

Oh, yes, and it is available everywhere, pkware doesn't have a unix
zip AFAIK.

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