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From:	pengzh AT ix DOT netcom DOT com (PENG ZHOU)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: MSDOS Unzip Program
Date:	28 Jul 1996 21:12:00 GMT
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In <199607281230 DOT IAA04506 AT delorie DOT com> DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
writes: 
>
>
>> > 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.
Hello,
    Where can you get InfoZip?

Thanks

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