[comp.os.msdos.misc] PKZIP, what is it?

franco@pembina.cs.UAlberta.CA (Franco Carlacci) (12/17/90)

What is PKZIP? Where do I get routines to 'zip' and 'unzip' files?

please email and thanks in advance,

franco carlacci franco@cs.ualberta.ca

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dcc@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Daniel Creswell) (12/20/90)

PKZIP is a shareware package that zip's and unzip's files. It can even build
you an exe file which when run unzips itself. I have a copy here if you
wanna arrange some kind of exchange. Failing that I can probably get you the
address of PKWARE who wrote it.

Dan C.

ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) (12/22/90)

In article <29100001@hpopd.pwd.hp.com> dcc@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Daniel Creswell) writes:
>PKZIP is a shareware package that zip's and unzip's files. It can even build
>you an exe file which when run unzips itself. I have a copy here if you
>wanna arrange some kind of exchange. Failing that I can probably get you the
>address of PKWARE who wrote it.

You can (also) get PKZ110.EXE or its Euroversion PKZ110EU.EXE at
pratically any well-stocked BBS and anonymous ftp site ours
included.  Furthermore, there is an Unix version of UNzip (ZIP for
Unix is at a beta test phase).  At uwasa.fi (Vaasa, Finland)
anonymous ftp site the files are /pc/pd2/pkz110eu.exe and
/unix/ts/unzip401.tar.Z.  The former is self extracting.  The
instructions for the latter are in /unix/ts/0news-u. 

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