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Subject:	Re: What features make WinZip a bad idea?
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Date:	Mon, 25 Feb 2002 12:25:11 GMT
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Thomas Mueller wrote:
> 
> > I read this in a post here:
> 
> > "Winzip has many "features" that make using it with DJGPP a bad idea."
> 
> > What features make using winzip a bad idea?
>   I ask because I dont think that I have ever used anything but WinZip.
>   There maybe something that I have not noticed yet, that may be looming.
> 
> I never used WinZip.  I used PKZIP since before WinZip existed, then
> later switched to Infozip, which is open-source, available for DOS 16-bit
> and 32-bit, Win32, BeOS, OS/2, most all Unixes and quasi-Unixes, OpenVMS,
> etc.  UNZIP32 used for DJGPP is part of Infozip.  I can't see why one
> would want to use WinZip in view of the superior alternative.

Not only that, but it seriously gets in the way by wanting to
expand down-loads on the fly, and who wants to bother figuring out
how to stop it.  I'M IN COMMAND here :-)

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