Re: Z-code Family Tree, portability, copyrights


3 Jul 95 21:43:03

dbk@mcs.com (Dan Keith) wrote:

> What I'd like, though, is for MaxZip to be considered THE Macintosh
> implementation of Zip and for it to be folded into the standard Zip source
> distribution.

One problem with that idea (although probably not a particularly large
one) is the lline in the 'Index' file stating "Requires System 7 and
1600K of free memory". I have a Mac Plus with System 6-something, and
a grand total of 1 Mb RAM. A somewhat archaic Mac for a somewhat
archaic genre. :-)

But I'd be selfish if I didn't recognize the efforts of Andrew Plotkin
(if I had a better computer, I'd most certainly give MaxZip a try), as
well as those of Matthew Russotto (whose zip port, while rather
minimalistic, seems to work very well for most things I've tried) and,
of course, Mark Howell.

Torbj|rn Andersson