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From: John Joseph Newbigin <079519 AT bud DOT cc DOT swin DOT edu DOT au>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: MSDOS Unzip Program
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 13:41:57 +1000
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On 29 Jul 1996, Alexander Lehmann wrote:

> iNFiK <randolp1 AT ix DOT netcom DOT com> wrote:
> 
> : thoes freeware ZIPers are based on the original pkware PKZIP program.
> : and pkzip is freeware unless you use it in a buisness or somthin =-] .. i 
> : think....
> 
> Actually, PKZIP is based on LHA 2.x, much more than zip is based on
> PKZIP. When LHA 2.x was released (which was basically a quantum leap
> in compression), pkzip got a new compression method which about
> equaled LHA, and since the source code of LHA was available, I would
> guess that the author at least was inspired by it (which is ok, since
> Yoshi released LHA a public domain).
> 
> The unzip program, which was the base for free zip/unzip was
> programmed without any information about the format itself (at least
> that's what I have heared), they basically reinvented the algorithm
> based on the knowledge of LHA. Now, while the file format is certainly
> an invention of PKWARE, the zip program has added long file names,
> upper/lower case and symbolic links (for unix).
> 
> 

Has this __anything__ to do with DJGPP?

Newbs.