X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mailnull set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f Message-ID: <3C7A2B4A.A4190D83@yahoo.com> From: CBFalconer Organization: Ched Research X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: What features make WinZip a bad idea? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 27 Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 12:25:11 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.90.167.192 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT worldnet DOT att DOT net X-Trace: bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1014639911 12.90.167.192 (Mon, 25 Feb 2002 12:25:11 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 12:25:11 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com 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 :-) -- Chuck F (cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com) (cbfalconer AT XXXXworldnet DOT att DOT net) Available for consulting/temporary embedded and systems. (Remove "XXXX" from reply address. yahoo works unmodified) mailto:uce AT ftc DOT gov (for spambots to harvest)