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From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
Subject: Re: Infocom format games
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In article <3qbvgb$n21@sundog.tiac.net> baf@max.tiac.net (Carl Muckenhoupt) writes:
>Agreed.  Nothing device-independent should be uploaded in such a 
>device-dependent form as the PKware .zip format.  If they must be 
>compressed, at the very least use gzip, which is available on a number of 
>platforms and has freely-distributable source code.

PKware ZIP format is open and quite extensible. The INFO-ZIP implementation
is free for many machines.

Alan


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