Frank, at 18:22 on Sat, Feb 11 1995, you wrote to Bill Grimsley ...

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

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

I read too many bad things about 1.93a and all incarnations of 2.04n prior
to the G rev. to even bother trying them.  2.04g has always proved to be
extremely stable and backwardly compatible here.

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

My pleasure.  In fact, I still use Shez quite a bit in a VDM, and it in
turn calls the DOS PKZip, so the only time I use the native OS/2 versions
is when they're called from my mail-tosser's batch-file.  AFA I'm
concerned, they both seem to work about the same anyway.

Regards, Bill

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