X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mailnull set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f From: "Thomas Mueller" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: What features make WinZip a bad idea? Date: 25 Feb 2002 10:53:30 GMT Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: tnt01-95-78.bluegrass.net (216.135.95.78) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1014634410 6624807 216.135.95.78 (16 [49635]) X-Mailer: NOS-BOX 2.05 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com > 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. > Thanks, > William 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.