Hello Gaylen!   
      
   Wed Sep 22 2010, Gaylen Hintz wrote to Kevin Klement:   
      
    GH>-=> KEVIN KLEMENT spoke thus to GAYLEN HINTZ <=-   
      
    >> Yes it was... the w7 machine was faster but this one works out   
    >> quite nicely too.  :)   
      
    KK>> I'll be interested in what W7 has to offer, from what I've   
    KK>> been reading, not much. I registered REX, so I want to keep it   
    KK>> up and running.   
      
    GH> Well, compared to Vista it's a bit faster on the boot up time and   
    GH>it's been rock solid. Some nice features are the ease in setting up   
    GH>a network and the multiple screens on the desktop at the same time   
    GH>are nice as well. :)     
      
    >> Well, we do have a few good years left anyway. :)  BTW, I am   
    >> using REX 2.31 and that has been good as well.   
      
    KK>> Ya, tried it some time ago, seemed fine here too.   
      
    GH> yep... so far so good anyway. :)   
      
   The most fidonet programs can run on w7 and both in 32bit system, but if it is   
   on 64bit then be sure the software is 64bit compatible software.   
   Here by wednesday I tried my usb point system pack on a new usb stick and as   
   it is dos based and 32bit programs, unziped I from my harddisk to usb stick   
   and put the usb stick on my W7 64bit portable pc, all program run fine but   
   when I tried the old pkzip and pkunzip 204 and 2.50 on it the W7 comes and   
   said 'use a 64bit compatible zip' and that tells that the packer must be 64   
   compatible now on a W7 64bit system.   
   So for using zip compression on 64bit is the best way to get hand on a zip and   
   unzip util there is 64bit compatible and drop the pkware pkzip and pkunzip,   
   info-zip has a unzip v6.x there is 64bit compatible and it is then to get hand   
   of this and a zip64 for packing.   
      
   It you then still like to use pkware pkzip and pkunzip then download the   
   latest version from pkware but be aware on it only work in 30 days if it not   
   is registered.   
      
     Take care,   
               Gert   
      
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