Subj : Re: Names
To   : SEAN DENNIS
From : Mike Powell
Date : Tue May 25 2021 17:33:00

> https://sourceforge.net/projects/arc/

> Fun fact: Phil Katz ripped off the ARC source code from SEA and created ZIP
> from it.  Dirty little secret of his.  There's an interesting video called
> "The Troubling Origins of .ZIP" on YouTube about how Phil got people to use
> ZIP even though it wasn't really his original work.

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu7sY1LOWiI

You might remember this, but Phil's ZIP predecessor was actually called
PKARC/PKxARC.  SEA called him on it, so he switched briefly to
PKPAK/PKunPAK (which still produced, and opened, only ARC packets), before
coming out with PKZIP/PKunZIP.

I assumed he changed the compression method and not just the extension, but
I guess maybe not.  :)

Mike

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