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Subject: IP: Phillip Katz

From: Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 17:00:30 -0400


>From: "David L. Gurgel" <dgurgel@energyfor.com>
>To: "Dave Farber" <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
>
>Today's Wall Street Journal has a long, front-page article on the tragic
>end of Phil Katz, founder of  PKWare (PKZIP). Mr. Katz, 37, was found
>dead on April 14 in a Milwaukee hotel, apparently from the effects of
>long-term abuse of alcohol. He was a 1984 computer science graduate of
>the University of Wisconsin (Milwaukee).