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From: madler@piglet.caltech.edu (Mark Adler)
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Subject: Re: HP-48SX chip.zip and pubdom.zip
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pashdown@shotput.es.com@bambam.UUCP (Pete Ashdown) requests:

>> Mark, how about using a slightly more standard archiver next time?  My Sun
>> doesn't speak zip yet.  If anyone can point me to a UNIX unzipper, I'd
>> appreciate it, but until then, try to use zoo or lharc.  As far as I know,
>> these formats are available on most platforms.

A UNIX unzip is available via anonymous ftp from simtel20.army.mil in
the directory pd3:<misc.unix> (yes, you have to type all that after the
cd) as UNZIP310.TAR-Z, which you would rename on your Unix system to
unzip310.tar.Z.  It works on all flavors of Sun's and a vast number of
other systems.  If you get it to work on a system that is not listed in
the makefile, please let me know which system in the makefile you used
and what system that works on.

Neither zip, zoo, nor lharc are commonly found on Unix systems, which is
why I usually post such things in both .zip and .tar.Z formats, but I was
a bit lazy this time, and I got it in zip format to begin with.  The
maintainer at wuarchive.wustl.edu has decided instead of making my upload
public (chip.zip and pubdom.zip) to pull apart the files and put the
individual programs in appropriate subdirectories.  I will also reupload
them both in .tar.Z format.

And by the way, lharc is horribly slow and not as good zip's implosion.
A Unix zip is in the works.

Mark Adler
madler@piglet.caltech.edu