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echo: os2dos
to: TONY DUNLAP
from: FRANK SEXTON
date: 1997-01-22 18:00:00
subject: Backup Software

-=> /* Quoting Tony Dunlap to Frank Sexton */ <=-
 FS>  Snipped 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?
 TD> If it is, it's not so suprizing. Most newer versions
 TD> create files that older versions can't read (ARJ being
 TD> the only exception I can think of).
True.  But I was thinking that maybe the OS/2 version used
the 2.04g version format too.  Then it would be kinda
disheartening.
-Frank
(fsexton@xpert.net - http://www.concentric.net/~fsexton)
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