PKZIP

In a message of 20 Sep 02 Valerij Kozhevnikoff wrote to me:

VK> Hello, Andrey!

VK> 19 Sep 02 22:22, Alexander Araktcheew -> Andrey Lysenko:

AL>>> and sensible people, because to write zip on spec
AL>>> you just have to be a fan. I will erect a monument to the one who writes zip on
AL>>> spec.

VK> You know, there is an author’s version of ZXZIP/ZXUNZIP for 48K computers. Let
VK> there
VK> half of the program is placed in an overlay and when it is packaged onto the disk
VK> it is swapped - this
VK> does not matter. She simply IS. It may be slow, but you can work with the ZXZIP archive
VK> at 48K. My Scorp has 256 KB of memory and 130 MB of storage space. There is one more
VK> screw for
VK> 120 MB. Is it enough for the subject?

Of course it’s enough, but do you want to wait for the file to be compressed ten times slower
than in wheezing? (with a small gain in size)
Don't forget - zip is far from zxzip!

Bye...

WBR, fyrex.

Press RESET immediately, Andrey!

20 Sep 02 20:27, Andrey Lysenko wrote to Valerij Kozhevnikoff:

AL> Of course that’s enough, but do you want to wait for the file to be compressed ten times
AL> slower than in a wheeze? (with a small gain in size) Don't
AL> forget - zip is far from zxzip!

In Hrip there is no file time, no long files (>64kb), no long names and
much
more. Don't call this something an archiver.