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    Phil Katz - in Memorium
    From: Tony S
    Date: 2000 May 02, 4:40 PM

    For old timers and new
    ----------------------
    
    PHIL KATZ
    
    If you ever downloaded a file, you met Phil Katz. Katz wrote the
    shareware program PKZip, far and away the most popular file
    compression program. The program, written as a hobby in 1986, was
    part of computer technology infrastructure, common as browsers
    would become.
    
    [note: it later became WinZip]
    
    Katz was found dead the other day at the age of 37. He apparently
    lived a troubled life; the Milwaukee medical examiner put the cause
    of death as complications from chronic alcoholism. He was found in
    a hotel room holding a bottle of alcohol, and five empty liquor
    bottles were also found in the room.
    
    No commentary here. But his passing, which was under-reported,
    should be noted.
    
    [courtesy of Dan Robenbaum, Windows Magazine Online]
    
    ==
    

       
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