[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Installing Spamassassin on Suse -- tangent on Zip support

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 04:02, Kipton Moravec wrote:
> So the next stop was http://spamassassin.apache.org
> they had tar.gz format, tar.bz2 format, and zip format.  Somewhere i read 
> there was a problem installing these format with packages because of 
> dependencies. 

Just FYI, there _are_ 3 major versions of PKZip in circulation, version
2, 4 and, now, 6.

I don't know if any of the Freedomware supports anything but version 2. 
PKWare did release a Linux port of its version 4 tools, not sure about
6.  Version 6 integrates RSA public key encryption to solve the issues
with version 2/4's inherent, simplistic and very crackable encryption.

Luckily most people only use version 2, because of the proliferation of
3rd party Standardware/Commerceware like WinZip, etc...


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