Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc:17910 comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d:653 Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: PK361.EXE Message-ID: <11792@steinmetz.ge.com> Date: 9 Aug 88 17:08:46 GMT References:Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 31 In article msmith@topaz.rutgers.edu (Mark Robert Smith) writes: | WEll, Phil has released PKPAK 3.61, with the obvious name change and a | bug fix. | It seems that big bad SEA forced him to change the name, AND forced SEA and PKware are about the same size | him to abandon even the compression algorithms that he was using. Not true. He will abandon the ARC compatible file format, as did zoo and dwc. The code for the compression algorithms is in the public domain or available for free use. | I urge you all to do the same. I also urge Rahul Dhesi to switch to | Phil's new standard as soon as it is available. I also urge SIMTEL20 | to convert its archives to the new standard. We need to show SEA that | their kind of competition through litigation is unacceptable, and that | competition through improvement is the only acceptable form of | competition. I don't think that anyone want to switch until/unless the UNIX source is available for the new compressor. I will probably switch all my postings to zoo format as soon as the new version comes over the net for readers to use, because I'm tired of having to move stuff to a PC to read the docs to see if I should bother to move them to a PC at all. BTW: I think that the settlement reflects the legal issues perfectly. Both zoo and dwc invented new file formats, help menus, directory listings, and commands. PKware "borrowed" most of the above, with very slight changes. -- bill davidsen (wedu@ge-crd.arpa) {uunet | philabs | seismo}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me