W8SDZ@SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL (Keith Petersen) (09/18/88)
Captured from the Exec-PC Business Board 414/964-5160 conf: FILE COMPRESSION FORUM #1612 08-31-88 20:06 from: PHIL KATZ subject: PLANS Well, I think it's a little to early for an official product announcement or anything, but here's what is currently in the works: ------------------------------------------------------------- Caveat: This is not an official press release. This is what is currently planned for the new data compression software forthcoming from PKWARE. The information provided here is subject to change without notice. o The file format for the new files will be made public. Other software can read or write these files without restriction. Additionally, PUBLIC DOMAIN source code written in portable C language may be released to demonstrate how an applications program can read the information contained in a file created with the new software. o The software will be concurrently released for MS-DOS, VAX/VMS, and Amiga. (This implies that long filenames such as on an Amiga or Unix will be fully supported.) OS/2, Unix, and mainframe development is currently being investigated. o The (MS-DOS) software will offer both a menu-driven full screen interface and a command line interface. o The software will provide significantly better compression than the current software, and also offer vastly improved reliability for recovering data from damaged and corrupted files. o The software will be able to process and traverse subdirectories. The (MS-DOS) software will be able to span multiple disks with compressed file collections. ---------------