- #How to buy pkware drivers
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tar has everything you need, and a lot more. Joerg Schilling, the author of the famous cdrecord, probably disagrees with you. Therefore the Unix model of tar and then a separate compression program makes more sense - even though tar is such a crusty and wasteful format.
#How to buy pkware update
(Although maybe someone will prove me wrong and say 'I update existing zipfiles every day, it's an essential feature, what I do is.'.)
The only reason to use zipfiles still is compatibility.
#How to buy pkware archive
You might as well take advantage of the simplicity and better compression that comes from treating the archive as a single lump. Maybe those made sense with SEA ARC on CP/M when disk space was scarce and CPUs slow, but not now. IMHO, since 99% of the time all you do with archives is create them or extract them, it's not worth implementing features like 'add to archive', 'delete from archive' or 'update archive'. You lose the ability to extract individual files but who needs that anyway? This gives you a few percent over compressing the files straight into a zipfile, when they are compressed individually. In the days when I used pkzip, I first bundled up the files into an uncompressed zipfile with -e0, and then compressed that. Now, maybe it's improved some since then, but if it didn't even have its own ancestral feature set in 2000, yet was already 3x the size of competing products like WinZIP and WinRAR, I have scant hope for later incarnations.Īnd thanks to this experience, chances are I'll never buy another product from PKWare. The only good thing I can say about it, is that it's fast. It's absolutely devoid of ALL the switches and options that made PKZIP for DOS so useful. Turns out the ONLY thing it can do is grab the specified files and create a new ZIP, or unzip a specified ZIP. So I was already annoyed by the time it was finally installed and running. The installer (a two-step, partially online-only process due to paranoia about piracy) is about 6mb, and the installed program is apparently scattered thruout Windows. Well, it was one of the poorest $10 purchases I ever made. Also assumed it would have the same feature set as PKZIP for DOS, and their promo literature certainly *sounded* like it would. Figured for the $10 special promotion, what the hell, and it would be nice to have PKZIP that could handle Windows long file names. In August of 2000, I bought PKZip Explorer from PKWare.
#How to buy pkware software
Good luck and never trust M$, the folks that bought 5th Generation Software to kill Fastback and who have always seen backup utilities as a threat and aid to "pirates". It will be difficult for him to manage the monster he's making. Kelly could be a fine fellow and have no intentions of making this happen. That's what happens when you put sales in front of engineering. Sounds like hell if they really have remade the company that way, and sure the customer gets screwed along with the lusers. I can also imagine that half of the "I wanna micro manage my staff to death" initiatives will directly contrardict the requirements for the other half. I can imagine them asking for central repositories of file lists, tables of "sensitive" files that can't be ziped, and other silly work arounds the serious lack of data control their w2k desktops have.
#How to buy pkware drivers
All the clueless and stupid "features" that corporate slave drivers can think of will become projects for the Brown Deer survivors. The engineers are no longer in charge, money is. "The company from this standpoint now is market driven." "In some cases what they did was successful, but in many cases what they did wasn't anywhere near successful," he said. When Katz was in charge, PKWare's programmers often would work on new features that they found interesting rather than targeting specific needs of potential customers, Kennedy said.
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And the company has its first professional and disciplined sales force. are supported by experienced software executives. The investors who bought the company following Katz's death in 2000 bolstered the top management team. $40 is not too high a price for not being able to figure out some combination of tar, find, grep, and crypt, but there's no telling where these folks will go with their new "Market Driven" company: