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to: FRANK SEXTON
from: TONY DUNLAP
date: 1997-01-20 20:36:00
subject: Backup Software

...and thus spake Frank Sexton unto Peter Petrin:
 FS>  Sniped from another message
 FS>  ===========================
 FS>  The DOS 2.04g can't read the PKZIP/2 archives. Bad move.
 FS>  Apparently it wasn't a port, it was developed from the
 FS>  ground up, and is no longer compatible cross-platform.
 FS>  ===========================
 FS> Is this true?
If it is, it's not so suprizing. Most newer versions create files that older 
versions can't read (ARJ being the only exception I can think of).
Later 
Tony Dunlap, (tdunlap@odot.dot.ohio.gov) 
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