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From: simon@ms.uky.edu (Simon Gales)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: PK361.EXE
Message-ID: <10152@e.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 11 Aug 88 01:37:19 GMT
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Reply-To: simon@ms.uky.edu (Simon Gales)
Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences
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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
>him to abandon even the compression algorithms that he was using.
>Now, he has until early 1989 to develop a new program.
> ...
>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.

 Why not urge Phil to convert to the same standards zoo is using?  
 It would be interesting to see how many of us like/dislike zoo.  If
 enough of us are using zoo, then another program using the same 
 standards (but more suited to those who dislike zoo) seems to be 
 the best solution. 

>
>Mark
>
>-- 
>Mark Smith (alias Smitty) "Be careful when looking into the distance,

>Tenafly, NJ 07670         {backbone}!rutgers!topaz.rutgers.edu!msmith 
>msmith@topaz.rutgers.edu              Bill and Opus in '88!!!


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