Hi, Bill.

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

BG> PE> It's compatible with 2.04G.

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

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

Yes, well the 2.something ones were, anyway. I thought I'd said that,
maybe it was in another message. 1.93alpha appears to have only one bug
that I've found, and it's not critical.

I will play with zip/unzip sometime, but I too see no great advantage in
changing. Thanks for your comments.

Regards, FIM.

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