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Phantom

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Does ne1 Still use PKZip?
« on: April 06, 2004, 12:36:08 PM »
Does anyone still use PkZip? Or do you use Win Zip?

I remember using PK Zip to unzip Commander Keen games off of the internet when I was like six.

But now I use winzip.
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« Reply #1 on: April 06, 2004, 12:41:19 PM »
Never heard of it. I think that everyone and their dog uses Winzip. Maybe WinRar might also be used though.
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« Reply #2 on: April 06, 2004, 12:42:41 PM »
I use WinZip and WinRAR

PKZip was used b4 any of those though, like back in the 1990-1996 or around that time.

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« Reply #3 on: April 06, 2004, 03:25:10 PM »
I use Winzip and zipti...

wait, we are talking all forms of computers, right?
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« Reply #4 on: April 06, 2004, 09:46:53 PM »
I think so, I just remember PKZip being a dos extraction program.

you'd have to type it like this

c:>pkunzip woot.zip >>c:>

That means to unzip the file to the c drive.
It's been so long since I have used Dos though that I have forgotten alot of the commands.

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« Reply #5 on: April 06, 2004, 11:46:26 PM »
zipti, the best way to compress files on your ti graphing-calculator

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« Reply #6 on: April 07, 2004, 02:09:27 AM »
Ti graphing calc, I am too cheep to buy the pc connector lol.

Neways, I guess people are still using the old dos version.
This surprises me.

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« Reply #7 on: April 07, 2004, 07:19:35 AM »
I think they have a graphical PKZip for windows.  It's good to use PKZip because most people don't buy winzip.  (That's why I use other free zipping programs! :) )

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« Reply #8 on: April 07, 2004, 08:06:06 AM »
I have Winzip 9.0 with the KeyGen, so I don't have to worry about the evaluation copy thing popping up.  :angry:



So I would have to say No I don't PKWare Utilites.

 

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« Reply #9 on: April 07, 2004, 08:42:23 AM »
oic, yah, I kindof guessed that they would have a graphical version, I was just wondering if any1 still used it, now that there are so many out there.

I don't mind the evaluation thing, but I use winRAR more now (Since it can do Zip and RAR)
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Offline Kiith Somtaaw

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« Reply #10 on: April 07, 2004, 08:47:01 AM »
I only use WinRAR to Extract RAR File.

But WinZip is the one I use often.




 

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« Reply #11 on: April 07, 2004, 09:02:12 AM »
Yah, I found out about winRAR when I needed to extract the Advanced Starcraft Map Editor

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« Reply #12 on: April 07, 2004, 10:16:32 AM »
For zip I just use WinXP "Zipped folder".
For rar, ace, tgz, etc I use WinRAR.

I have used PKUNZIP on my old Dos "Zenith EazyPC" to unzip text-games etc. (Since it only allows 720KB disks to be used)

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« Reply #13 on: April 08, 2004, 12:38:15 AM »
Well, I'm glad to see that at least one person used to use the DOS version!