I know that WinZip(R) doesn't have a version for the PPC yet but I have been using this software utility since its DOS version (I remembers the comands too ). Different reasons made me use my PPC to carry large files at home, I used my old copy of WinZip to get this task done on my SD card and transfer the smaller files using the PPC connection. Looking for an upgrade, I noticed that WinZip(R) is now at version 10.0 and is offered at 50% off if you own a copy of the previous version. I do not recommend to do what I did to carry files at home but WinZip in the circumstances help me speed-up the process. If you want more information about this new version and all the new features available, look here.
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Actually, Frenchy, I don't think WINZIP had a DOS version. You're remembering PKZip from PKWare. WinZip is a descendant of that technology but it isn't the same company. PKWare produced a Windows version of PKZIP also.
Actually, Frenchy, I don't think WINZIP had a DOS version. You're remembering PKZip from PKWare. WinZip is a descendant of that technology but it isn't the same company. PKWare produced a Windows version of PKZIP also.
Man ... those were the days (DOS), weren't they?
-CB :approve:
I did want to be technical about it so I listed WinZip instead PKZip and PKUNZip. Yes, these were the days. Do you how fast a DOS 6.22 on a 300Mhz, 256RAM runs. Just one word WOW!
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If you get dead silence after breaking the speed of sound, would you be in the darkness after passing the speed of light?
I did want to be technical about it so I listed WinZip instead PKZip and PKUNZip. Yes, these were the days. Do you how fast a DOS 6.22 on a 300Mhz, 256RAM runs. Just one word WOW!
Yeah ... I'm sure it absolutely flies now.
A number of years ago I wrote a system for video rental stores that I sold a few copies of. It was, of course, a DOS-based application that used a Btrieve database. (I could deliver the entire system on ONE 360K floppy). Full color, mouse support, the works (in character-mode of course). The executable was something like 185K in size if memory serves. It was written in good old Borland C++.
A few years ago I pulled the system out of mothballs (C Compiler and all!) and loaded it up on my Pentium Box. (I think it was my P3-450). Compiling the system used to take about 5 or 10 minutes. On the Pentium it took something like 8 seconds! Running the program and doing a database sort of 10,000 members used to take 15 or 20 minutes. On the Pentium it took something like 5 seconds! Screen paint? Heh ... screen flash is more like it.
Now we have all this new GUI technology which is way cool - but it's kind of funny; we're still solving the same basic kinds of problems now that we were 20 years ago. I mean ... at least from a utility software standpoint we are. I still write code that tracks employee time & attendance and all that - the main difference now is the system consumes 100MB of space and is nowhere near as fast. Amazing, isn't it?
I wouldn't go back to those days - not after having tools like Visual Studio. Even now, though, I still prefer the tools that aren't quite at the "bleeding edge". I still prefer to code in VB6 rather than .Net. The new stuff is just so heavy on resources and, in my context at least, we're not gaining anything for the performance loss.
pkzip, pkunzip, zip2exe. those were my 3 magic files back in the old days of msdos 6.22 & windows 3.11. my 386 was so pathetic that winzip doesnt have enough memory to create new zip files :p
yea was all into btrieve & pkzip/unzip on a 8086+...
Anyway winzip was OK up to about version 5, then it started getting bloatware, and full of rubbish and didn't support other compressions like tar/rar/tgz, where as winrar supports almost everything including zip files and you read the readme files within the archive without extracting anything, to this day winrar beats the pants of winzip, sorry I just like efficiency.
While WInzip 10.0 is now more on the need of todays use, they dont follow this task as fast as others do.
I am using www.powerarchiver.com for a long time now, which had the explorer style since years (and thats what I really like to "browse" through zips, rather than look at a column where the file is located.
Powerarchiver also supports extraction of rar and arj without external programs (dont know if the new winzip can, the old ones still needed an arj.exe to call for extracting)
Also the task-manager functionality is already built in since years in that product and what I like most, life-long updates!
Additionally what I like: Archive Converter, which lets you convert eg. a rar to a zip with one click.
yea was all into btrieve & pkzip/unzip on a 8086+...
Anyway winzip was OK up to about version 5, then it started getting bloatware, and full of rubbish and didn't support other compressions like tar/rar/tgz, where as winrar supports almost everything including zip files and you read the readme files within the archive without extracting anything, to this day winrar beats the pants of winzip, sorry I just like efficiency.
yah I agree. I personally use WinAce and WinRAR. And the free PocketRAR is cool.. :approve:
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I know that WinZip(R) doesn't have a version for the PPC yet but I have been using this software utility since its DOS version (I remembers the comands too 
). Different reasons made me use my PPC to carry large files at home, I used my old copy of WinZip to get this task done on my SD card and transfer the smaller files using the PPC connection. Looking for an upgrade, I noticed that WinZip(R) is now at version 10.0 and is offered at 50% off if you own a copy of the previous version. I do not recommend to do what I did to carry files at home but WinZip in the circumstances help me speed-up the process. If you want more information about this new version and all the new features available, 
