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From Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com>
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Subject Re: Zip list
Date Fri, 17 Feb 2023 11:56:54 -0800
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On 2/17/23 11:32, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> On 2023-02-17, Carlos E. R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> On 2023-02-17 17:28, Robert Heller wrote:
>>
>>> Zip / Unzip have a bit of a history and came from outside of the UNIX world
>>> (they originated in the MS-DOS world). I suspect that due to MS-DOS memory /
>>> disk limitations the *original* programs for Zip files had to be limited to
>>> single functions (just building the zip file, just extracting, just listing,
>>> etc.).  Along with a different philosophy about how to organize software.
>>
>> Er... that's not my remembrance. I recall a single program, called
>> "pkzip". Maybe there was an older zip/unzip, but what we used before
>> pkzip was another format, arc.
> 
> I recall there being two separate programs, PKZIP.EXE and PKUNZIP.EXE.
> In fact, I just dug around on my system and found them both.  They're
> dated 1993-02-01.
> 
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PKZIP>
> 
> Note that the label on the floppy disk in the photo mentions
> both PKZIP and PKUNZIP.
> 
> That's not to say that there wasn't a later version of PKZIP
> that could both zip and unzip, but I never saw one.
> 
> I was becoming so tired of the proliferation of file archiving
> formats (ARC, ZOO, ARJ, etc.) that I was relieved to see the
> world finally settle on ZIP as a standard archiving format.
> (Uh-oh, here comes 7Zip...)
> 
> And this is all separate from the Unix world, which had
> tar, cpio, gzip...
> 

	And in the Amiga sphere we used .lzh and .lha which were pretty
good but before I could get a shareware full version the creator took a
job with Microsoft.  We also had zip but preferred usually the Lha which
had no problem creating a file that would unpack itself.

bliss -“Nearly any fool can use a GNU/Linux computer. Many do.” 		After 
all here I am... Again.


-- 
bliss dash SF 4 ever at dslextreme dot com

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Zip list db <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com> - 2023-02-16 16:57 +0100
  Re: Zip list Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2023-02-16 08:12 -0800
    Re: Zip list "25B.R866" <25B.R866@noaaba.net> - 2023-02-18 03:59 -0500
      Re: Zip list Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2023-02-18 16:16 -0500
        Re: Zip list "25B.R866" <25B.R866@noaaba.net> - 2023-02-18 21:40 -0500
          Re: Zip list Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2023-02-19 21:13 -0500
            Re: Zip list Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2023-02-20 17:19 +1000
              Re: Zip list "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2023-02-20 11:38 +0100
  Re: Zip list Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2023-02-16 16:31 +0000
  Re: Zip list Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2023-02-16 16:51 +0000
    Re: Zip list Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2023-02-16 19:21 -0500
  Re: Zip list "Nuno Silva" <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2023-02-17 10:44 +0000
    Re: Zip list "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2023-02-17 10:41 -0500
      Re: Zip list Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2023-02-17 16:28 +0000
        Re: Zip list "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2023-02-17 19:06 +0100
          Re: Zip list Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2023-02-17 19:32 +0000
            Re: Zip list Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2023-02-17 11:56 -0800
              Re: Zip list "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2023-02-17 21:10 +0100
            Re: Zip list "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2023-02-17 20:59 +0100
            Re: Zip list The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-02-18 10:12 +0000
              Re: Zip list "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2023-02-18 12:43 +0100
                Re: Zip list The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-02-18 13:15 +0000
                Re: Zip list Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2023-02-18 14:46 +0000
                Re: Zip list "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2023-02-18 17:39 +0100
                Re: Zip list The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-02-19 11:10 +0000
                Re: Zip list "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2023-02-19 12:42 +0100
                Re: Zip list "25B.E866" <25B.E866@noaaba.net> - 2023-02-22 00:58 -0500
                Re: Zip list "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2023-02-22 18:54 +0100
                Re: Zip list Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2023-02-22 17:00 -0500
                Re: Zip list not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2023-02-23 09:23 +1000
                Re: Zip list Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2023-02-22 19:41 -0500
                Re: Zip list Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2023-02-22 19:43 -0500
                Re: Zip list "25B.E866" <25B.E866@noaaba.net> - 2023-02-23 01:08 -0500
                Re: Zip list "Andrei Z." <no-email@invalid.invalid> - 2023-02-23 13:32 +0300
                Re: Zip list "25B.E866" <25B.E866@noaaba.net> - 2023-02-23 11:23 -0500
                Re: Zip list "Andrei Z." <no-email@invalid.invalid> - 2023-02-23 20:29 +0300
                Re: Zip list "25B.E866" <25B.E866@noaaba.net> - 2023-02-23 21:22 -0500
                Re: Zip list Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2023-02-24 13:18 +1000
                Re: Zip list "25A.I866" <25A.I866@noacba.net> - 2023-02-25 00:13 -0500
                Re: Zip list Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2023-02-26 12:01 +1000
                Re: Zip list "Andrei Z." <no-email@invalid.invalid> - 2023-02-24 07:58 +0300
                Re: Zip list "25A.I866" <25A.I866@noacba.net> - 2023-02-25 00:15 -0500
                Re: Zip list "Andrei Z." <no-email@invalid.invalid> - 2023-02-25 09:34 +0300
                Re: Zip list "25A.I866" <25A.I866@noacba.net> - 2023-02-25 02:33 -0500
                Re: Zip list The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-02-25 10:19 +0000
                Re: Zip list Eric Pozharski <whynot@pozharski.name> - 2023-02-25 13:43 +0000
                Re: Zip list "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2023-02-25 12:04 +0100
                Re: Zip list The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-02-25 10:00 +0000
                Re: Zip list Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2023-02-18 16:18 -0500
                Re: Zip list The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-02-19 11:13 +0000
                Re: Zip list "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2023-02-19 12:48 +0100
                Re: Zip list "25A.I866" <25A.I866@noacba.net> - 2023-02-25 00:51 -0500
                Re: Zip list Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2023-02-25 06:15 +0000
                Re: Zip list "25A.I866" <25A.I866@noacba.net> - 2023-02-25 02:30 -0500
                Re: Zip list The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-02-25 10:17 +0000
                Re: Zip list "25A.I866" <25A.I866@noacba.net> - 2023-02-25 23:08 -0500
                Re: Zip list Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2023-02-26 03:46 +0000
                Re: Zip list The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-02-25 10:09 +0000
                Re: Zip list "25A.I866" <25A.I866@noacba.net> - 2023-02-26 00:12 -0500
                Re: Zip list "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2023-02-25 12:10 +0100
                Re: Zip list "25A.I866" <25A.I866@noacba.net> - 2023-02-25 23:41 -0500
                Re: Zip list "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2023-02-26 20:22 +0100
                Re: Zip list "28A.I873" <28A.I873@noabzba.net> - 2023-02-26 23:56 -0500
                Re: Zip list "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2023-02-27 19:26 +0100
                Re: Zip list "28A.I873" <28A.I873@noabzba.net> - 2023-02-27 22:20 -0500
                Re: Zip list Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2023-02-28 15:21 +0000
                Re: Zip list "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2023-03-01 23:23 +0100
                Re: Zip list "28A.I873" <28A.I873@noabzba.net> - 2023-03-02 00:02 -0500
              Re: Zip list Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2023-02-18 16:17 -0500
            Re: Zip list Eric Pozharski <whynot@pozharski.name> - 2023-02-18 14:55 +0000

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