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In a msg of , Jonathan de Boyne Pollard writes to 
Steve Mccrystal:
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Jonathan,
 JP>   Interesting.  From past experience with other similar
 JP> occasions, I would expect most people to stick with Info-ZIP, on the
 JP> basis that it is free,
Yep. I'm just not one of them.
 JP> has pretty sensible command-line defaults (over the years I have
 JP> heard many comments that defaulting to extract with full pathnames is
 JP> "much more sensible")
 JP>  and works just fine.
 JP>   So why do you choose to use PKWare's offering ?
I guess the above are my two biggest objections.  First, I find the 
commandline options to be completely unintuitive - not just the defaults but 
all of them.  I just get tired of reading the help screen, and trying to 
deciper it, to figure out how to make the thing do what I want it to do.
Second, the all too frequent updates all too frequently do not work, at least 
not the way the previous version did.  I can remember several occasions when 
my incoming mail did not get tossed because the recently installed InfoZip 
update would not unpack it.  Going back to a previous version cleared up the 
problem with no other changes. I'm now using a version from 1994, and have no 
intention of using anything newer from InfoZip.  That one works.  When the 
PKWARE program is available, I won't have to worry about it again!
-[Steve]-
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