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Posted by Jason Turner on June 07, 1998 at 16:48:40:
In Reply to: The WinZip monopoly posted by Janus Boye on June 07, 1998 at 05:58:03:
: Nowadays with the Web, people only seems to be using WinZip. Not that this is bad, but when people provide downloads in .zip format, don't they force users to have WinZip installed?
The DOS version of pkzip 2.04g is free. Also, as the format of the compressed file was made available, you can also download tools for other platforms. eg. zip for unix, also free.
It's up to a user whether they want to part with money for the GUI that winzip provides.
: WinZip has a nice feature, that makes the compressed file a .exe file, and thus the need for client access to WinZip dissappears.
But portability with other platforms dissapears too.
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