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> Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 10:39:50 +0100
> From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
> > 
> > I think it would be useful to mention programs and their versions that
> > produce such ZIP archives.
> 
> PKZIP has been able to span since at least 2.04 - perhaps earlier too? WinZip
> doesn't. InfoZIP's zip doesn't seem to. I don't know about other programs.
> 
> I'm not convinced we'd gain anything from mention it. The user has to
> explicitly enable spanning in PKZIP, so if they're spanning, they should
> already know about it.

How about if we give an example of a PKZIP command that causes such
zip files to be created?