Re: MacShrinkit

["ralmin" <xbiber@bigpond.net.au>]

> Thank you for that information Penman.  After checking with Unisys on all
this
> they stated that any program be it freeware, shareware or commercial
> distribution that uses the LZH compression alogrythm can only do so by
> obtaining a use agreement and licence from Unisys.  That includes
> ShrinkIt, Shrink II and all other such archive programs using the the LZH
> compression alogrythm,
> be they past, present or future.

Spelling: algorithm, sorry but it annoys me.

> So, the MacShrinkIt project will not happen. Thus, I propose that the
Apple II
> users adopt the zip archive as their standard archive file format.  After
all -
> it's FREE without restrictions, use agreement and licence requirmements
and
> it's has zip and unzip programs for ALL computer platforms.

The same problem happened with the Unix "compress" which was replaced with
gzip (and more recently, bzip2 which is less common but gives smaller
files).

There are some problems with ZIP because it doesn't support all the ProDOS
file information like file types or forks. These things would need to be
added in some way.

Simon.