Frank, at 21:13 on Thu, Feb 09 1995, you wrote to Paul Edwards ...

PE> It's compatible with 2.04G.

FM> Ta. In the short term I'll use PKZIP, then. Most of my life is 
FM> buried in a ZIP file somewhere, and I therefore do a *lot* of 
FM> testing before changing archivers. I just don't have the time to do 
FM> that, so if ZIP is compatible with 2.04g that's great.

I've been using ZIP and UNZIP for a couple of years now, and they really
are bullet-proof, but unless you run OS/2, I can see no real advantage in
using anything other than the DOS versions of PKZIP and PKUNZIP 2.04g. 
Presumably you knew that versions prior to 2.04g were extremely buggy?

Regards, Bill

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