Janis, consider this a CC. The last 9 lines are the most relevant.

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 System: Amateur BBS
   Area: LINUX
   Date: 09-04-04 01:11
   From: ANDY ALT
     To: JASEN BETTS
   Subj: Re: Pkzip for Linux
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-=> JASEN BETTS wrote to ANDY ALT <=-

 AA>  File: pkz6lnx.exe (12066kB),
 AA>  Area: PKLIN,
 AA>  Origin: 2:236/150
 AA>  Desc: PKZip for Linux v6.00

 AA> Can anybody recommend or trash this? I have zip and unzip on here -
 AA> which came with my Slack distro - I don't know that I need pkzip for
 AA> linux, or if there might be advantages to having it. Anybody have any
 AA> xp with this?

 JB> it doesn't look right.

 JB> the version number is too high, ( should be 2.something ) it has an
 JB> .exe extension and it's 12 megs...

 JB> zip and unzip do pretty-much everything PKZIP does, (except format
 JB> floppies and possibly a few other oddball features)

Hmmm.. I didn't even not the file size or .exe extension.. a dead give
away. :) I found that in the filegate echo or some echo where new files
were announced. Thanks for pointing that out! That does seem strange; I
wonder I should mention that to Janis.


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