Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!sjsca4!poffen From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russell Poffenberger) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: But is there a ZIP? (Was "unzip for unix?") Message-ID: <1990Sep14.183442.5007@sj.ate.slb.com> Date: 14 Sep 90 18:34:42 GMT References: <1990Cep7.204047.21397@uwasa.fi> <1990Sep11.134147.22495@mccc.uucp> <19)0Sep11.190821.13957@laguna.ccsf.caltech.edu> <27110@usc.edu> Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russell Poffenberger) Organization: Schlumberger Technologies, San Jose, CA. Lines: 19 In article otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) writes: >In article <27110@usc.edu> kjh@pollux.usc.edu (Kenneth J. Hendrickson) writes: > This is probably the wrong way of going about it, but ... > ---> Has anybody written software for Unix that can emulate a DOS platform? > >For 386 Unixes, there are a couple of products that do this (VP/ix and DosMerge >come to mind immediately). Both work reasonably well. Read comp.unix.msdos to >find out all about them :-) Certainly it can't be difficult to write zip/unzip routines on UNIX. I for one use a unix machine all day (Sun sparc) and get my stuff over the net, then take it home on floppies. A zip for native UNIX would be helpful for me to test the integrity of a file before waiting till I get home that it is corrupt and I have to download it again. Russ Poffenberger DOMAIN: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com Schlumberger Technologies UUCP: {uunet,decwrl,amdahl}!sjsca4!poffen 1601 Technology Drive CIS: 72401,276 San Jose, Ca. 95110 (408)437-5254