In a message dated 01-25-04, Herbert Bushong said to Holger Granholm:

Hi Herb,

HB>Hi Holger. Sorry if my reply is late...I'm heavily into coursework
HB>at college and I'm not as young as I used to be :)

That's OK.

::> To my knowledge ULP2 v2.28b dated Feb. 8 2000 is a 32-bit OS/2 version

HB>That's possible. I may have had trouble compiling the OS/2 version,
HB>and the later "b" version got it to compile correctly.

HB>ULP's lifecycle is now one of support only.

See what a fine program it is.
No updates necessary as the years pass by ;-)

Was there ever a Windows version of it? That's an operating system that
really asks for a program like it.

HB>Most likely it's the Zip Comment added when the archive is
HB>processed. Did you try it without comment added?

Yes, in the way that I compressed the same file directly using InfoZIP.
I.e. without using ULP.

::> PKZIP v2.50 for OS/2. The compressed nodediff becomes maybe 20 bytes
::> smaller with PKZIP than with ZIP but OTOH I don't know what parameters
::> I should use in ULP2.CFG for that program. Any ideas?

HB>There ya got me. If they are using that gawd-awful expanded
HB>commandline parameters, you may have trouble because they may not
HB>all fit.

That's what I was afraid of.

HB>The help that is available in ULPSM may give you an idea
HB>what parameters to look for and pass to pkz250/2.

I'll check that but I think it only knows the parameters for v4.xx.
OTOH, we could always write a .cmd file that contains the parameters
and is started from ULP2.

Have a nice day,

Holger

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