re windows zip unzip in article rl b h c sol deakin oz au russ deakin oz au russ sharp writes we are using pkzip v and i am interested to hear from people who have used one of the many windows programs that call these which ones are available and does any one stand out amongst the rest well i got winzip from cica don t know which version but i think it s the latest as this is not long ago and i was initially imressed but here s the low down winzip is a great progra as long as you only unzip it lets you vew files unzip only selected files and even puts the files in a checkout directory and creates a checkout grp and group if you want to check the program out it even prompts for deletion of these on exit if you didn t like the program however big however over here i have problems zipping i don t konw specifics on this or ammount of consistency but sometimes when i zip a few files or add a file to a zip dos will violate something or other and i ll be asked in a kind micro oft kind of way to quit all applications quit windows and restart my computer i don t know as i said how consistent this is as i jdont zip much and when i do now i just go to dos and use it from there or just use the run cmd but i do know it s happened when i added files to an existing zip file and when i created a new zip file using selected files only i don t know if it s happened when i zip an entire dir still it has a rather nice interface and quite useful unzip ing functions if the above is fixed i ll be the first to register the new ver as for now a good old run unzip zip will work ps if a new ver is out that fixes these please let me know peace mickey pe michael panayiotakis louray seas gwu edu ace uunet seas gwu edu louray how do make a ms windows grp file reflect a hd directory well i ain t always right but i ve never been wrong gd
