* The Civvie [Wednesday, 17 Oct 2001 10:01:42 +0000]:
The registered version of PKZIP/L allowes for AV which means that people can prove that the zip file originated from me.
Well, nowadays I'd use md5 digests or use gpg/pgp signatures.
There are other benefits as well. Being a Fidonet person :)
1:xxx/yyy.zzz if I remember correctly ?;-))) It's been quite some time since I've switched from Fido to Internet (about 6 years if I remember correctly and it's about 11 years that I discovered Fido). Maybe if I finally get around to set up my server I'll once again get me a node address, now that mainly the internet is used for transport. ....
I will mail them back and ask them if they cannot remove that dependency. Thanks for the advise.
They'd just have to recompile the program on a recent Linux system that uses libc6, aka glibc2. So it's not that hard to do. Philipp -- Windows (win-DOH-z), n. A thirty-two bit extension and graphical shell to a sixteen bit patch to an eight bit operating system originally coded for a four bit microprocessor which was used in a PC built by a two bit company that couldn't stand one bit of competition.