Sean Rima wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

I am also a registered user, but don't use it. Not even sure if the keyfile is used under Linux. Never knew that about info-zip

Oh, it's the actual ZIP code by Phil Katz. If anything, Info-ZIP is its original code based on reverse engineering ZIP packets.

Here's one of the videos I watched on YT that explains how ZIP came to be
and how the BBS community embraced it based on Katz's lies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu7sY1LOWiI

I also did some fact-checking of my own and sadly, the video seems to be
spot on.

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Hello digimaus!

13 Mar 25 20:26, you wrote to me:

I am also a registered user, but don't use it. Not even sure if
the keyfile is used under Linux. Never knew that about info-zip

Oh, it's the actual ZIP code by Phil Katz. If anything, Info-ZIP is
its original code based on reverse engineering ZIP packets.

Here's one of the videos I watched on YT that explains how ZIP came to
be and how the BBS community embraced it based on Katz's lies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu7sY1LOWiI

I also did some fact-checking of my own and sadly, the video seems to
be spot on.

That was very interesting. And such a sad end for Katz.

TheCivvie


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