Date:	Sun, 28 Jul 1996 08:30:57 -0400
Message-Id:	<199607281230.IAA04506@delorie.com>
From:	DJ Delorie <dj>
To:	randolp1 AT ix DOT netcom DOT com
CC:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to:	<31F98C68.59E8@ix.netcom.com> (message from iNFiK on Fri, 26 Jul
	1996 20:26:32 -0700)
Subject:	Re: MSDOS Unzip Program

> > I ported the unzip and zip programs to djgpp.  They are more reliable
> > than pkzip which is whi I did the port.
> 
> how can your unzip program be more reliable htan PKware's unzip program?
> Pk*zip is the REAL and 1st zip program that eveyone uses (well .. dos 
> users anyway).  But you may be right if you're talking about 
> error-freeness, but not compatability with other .ZIPs.

True, but IBM made the first REAL pc's, but other vendors made more
reliable ones after IBM did.  Some were even more IBM-compatible than
the IBM machines were.  PS/2, for example, didn't have an
EGA-compatible VGA card, but all the other vendors did.

I've seen a lot of cases where pkzip couldn't handle the stress I put
it under making djgpp distributions - hundreds or thousands of files.
InfoZip worked like a charm.

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