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echo: pcboard
to: Holger Granholm
from: Herbert Bushong
date: 2004-01-25 04:26:00
subject: I found the reason

::> I found the reason (I think) why the compressed files grow by
::> almost 1 Kb.

::> The COMMENT.TPL that is added to the compressed file is 860 bytes
::> before filling in the data.

As per my other message, that's what I would guess as well. I wonder if PKZ 
even compresses the comments....

::> In the meantime I have been searching for my original diskette for
::> PKZIP for OS/2 v2.50 without finding it.

::> I have never printed out the text files (I usually do) so now when
::> I wanted to find out possible abbreviated parameters I can't.

Is the PKZip site still up? Any luck finding docs there?

::> I do have the parameters that ZTreeBold uses but they are kind'a long.

yeah, I know. 

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