Hi Lisa and all,

Winzip unregistered is fully functional.  If you register it, which in my
opinion is very very worthwhile, the introductory nag message goes away.  To
my knowledge there are no other changes.  Coming from the DOS world, I found
PKZip a most necessary staple of computing utilities.

As for the self extractor, you probably do not need it unless you are
writing programs and having them unpack and set themselves up when your
users obtain your software package.  I use the simpler version myself.

Hope this helps some.

John S









----- Original Message -----
From: "Lisa McManus" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2003 7:31 PM
Subject: question about winzip


>         Hi everyone,
>
> I really do not know anything about the winzip program.  I have it on my
> computer, but it says it is an evaluation program.  Does this mean that it
> runs out after a while?  Since I really do not understand the program when
> I went to purchase the program it wanted to know if I just wanted the
> winzip program or the winzip program with the self extractor program.  I
do
> not understand the self extractor part.  Is it necessary?  If I do not get
> it will I have to go through some complicated process to unzip any file I
> want to unzip.  If anyone could please try to explain this to me I would
> really appreciate it.  I would like to know which I should purchase, the
> winzip alone or with the self extractor.  Thank you very much in advance
> for the help.
>
> Lisa
>
>
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