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From: "Alain" <alainm AT pobox DOT com>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: PKZIP 2.50 for DOS
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 21:16:48 -0200
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Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com

Another NO for Info-Zip:

no LFN support!

Alain

>Well, yes and no.
>
>Yes, because it's free and (IIRC) open-source.
>
>No, because it doesn't support that compression
>type that Unisys has a patent on (LZW?), so I
>guess it won't decompress a file using this.
>
>Also, no because it *still* (last time I checked !!!)
>doesn't support floppy disk spawning (have I got
>that terminology right ... ?).
>
>Joe.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Florian Xaver [SMTP:dos DOT fire AT aon DOT at]
>> Sent: Saturday, 11 November 2000 4:53
>> To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
>> Subject: Re:       PKZIP 2.50 for DOS
>> 
>> Another, better solution is to use INFOZIP. You can find it at
>> www.opus.co.tt/dave/.
>> 
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