Several new features have been added to PKZIP/PKUNZIP/PKSFX version 1.1. Read the file ADDENDUM.DOC for a complete description of these changes and enhancements. Highlights of PKZIP/PKUNZIP/PKSFX etc. version 1.1 include: - PKZIP 1.1 Imploding is up to 5X faster, particularly on large spreadsheet and database type files where PKZIP 1.02 would run relatively slowly. Most 'typical' types of files should implode 5% to 25% faster. In addition, compression has been improved over version 1.02 as well. - Authenticity Verification. - A 2,934 byte "mini" PKSFX self-extracting module. - ZIP2EXE no longer requires the external file PKSFX.PRG. - The ability to save & restore volume labels. - Defensive use of the 32 bit accumulator EAX on 80386 or 80486 computers. In many instances, such as when using MultiSoft's PC-KWIK cache or Novell non-dedicated NetWare software, if you needed to set the PKNO386 environment variable with PKZIP/PKUNZIP version 1.02, you probably don't need to set this anymore with PKZIP/PKUNZIP version 1.1. There appear to be many programs that use exTENded memory and/or '80286 protected mode' that have absolutely no regard to saving or restoring the EAX register when switching to and from protected mode on an 80386 or 80486 CPU. There were no bugs in PKZIP/PKUNZIP 1.02 regarding usage of the 80386 instructions or registers. However, PKZIP/PKUNZIP 1.02 did not expect that the EAX register would be wantonly corrupted from one instruction to the next. PKZIP/PKUNZIP 1.1 do expect that other programs may randomly destroy the EAX register, and defends against this. PKZIP/PKUNZIP 1.1 treat all references to EAX as a critical section, briefly disallowing programs from interrupting PKZIP/PKUNZIP when the EAX register is used. If it sounds ludicrous that a program would need to protect access to a CPU register like this, particularly the accumulator, that's because it is! Considering that 80386 computers have commonly been available for over two years now, it is unfortunate that many '80286 specific' programs don't have any consideration that they could be running on an 80386 or 80486 CPU. It takes approximately 30 bytes of code for a program to determine if it is running on an 80286 CPU versus an 80386/80486 CPU, and two instructions (namely PUSH EAX and POP EAX) to save and restore the EAX register. Any program that uses exTENded memory or 80286 protected mode has little excuse not to save and restore EAX when running on an 80386 or 80486 CPU, especially if they are going to interrupt the currently executing program! Programs that are negligent of this will only cause additional problems in the future as more software is developed to take advantage of the 80386 and 80486 instruction sets and 32-bit registers.