To: DJ Delorie <dj AT ctron DOT com>
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Status of list 
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 92 15:39:53 +0200
From: lwj AT cs DOT kun DOT nl

> Query: I'd like to switch djgpp from .zip files to a format I've come
> up with so that I can freely distribute my unpacking program (pkzip
> has certain legal restrictions for commercial distribution).

Are those restrictions on pkzip.exe and pkunzip.exe or on the ZIP file
format itself? If the former, the portable zip/unzip from the info-zip
group might be usable. Ask Info-ZIP-Request AT WSMR-Simtel20 DOT Army DOT mil for
details.

The last thing we need is yet another archive file format.

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