Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen
From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: But is there a ZIP? (Was "unzip for unix?")
Message-ID: <1894@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 16 Sep 90 17:36:00 GMT
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Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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In article <1990Sep14.183442.5007@sj.ate.slb.com> poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russell Poffenberger) writes:

| 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.

  Since you find it so easy why not knock one off on your lunch hour.
About 30 people on the unzip mailing list have been working on getting
the unzip right. Making it work on one machine *is* fairly easy, but
making it postable is not.

  The format is highly machine dependent as to byte oreder, bit order,
struct padding, and word length. We could really use someone who has a
better understanding than we do to show us why we have been struggling
so long to get it right.

  Be sure to have it work on 36, 48, and 64 bit machines... I'll post a
copy for you later this week when you're done.
-- 
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
    sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX
    moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list
"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me