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Originally posted by Statica
Why ZIP indeed? They didnt even get there first .. Yoshi & LHA were actually around and more widely used before pkware, both for .lha's as well as for SFXs. The earliest version I remember using was for DOS 3.xx. I guess they arrived with the GUIs first on the scene, yet is puzzling why they are so widespread.
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Not true! Phil Katz came out with PKzip years before there was any other compression method other than arc. If fact zip came about because he had PKARC out and another company sued him claiming the format was theirs. Phil Katz goes clear back to dos 2.1 and maybe even earlier.
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