Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Path: utzoo!censor!geac!itcyyz!xrtll!silver From: silver@xrtll.uucp (Hi Ho Silver) Subject: Re: pkunzip Reply-To: silver@xrtll.UUCP (Hi Ho Silver) Organization: Yeah, right. Date: Sun, 13 Jan 91 15:52:49 GMT Message-ID: <1991Jan13.155249.13896@xrtll.uucp> References: Sender: Hi Ho Silver (Your Wildest Fantasy) In comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc, clagett@ms.uky.edu (Bill Clagett) typed: $>PKZIP (tm) FAST! Create/Update Utility Version 0.92 03-06-89 ^^^^ That's your problem; you're two versions behind. You should be able to find V1.10 somewhere on SIMTEL20 or a mirror site. $> Length Method Size Ratio Date Time Name $> ------- ------ ------ ----- ---- ---- ---- $> 53417 Unknown 20924 61% 04-09-89 13:25 FRACTINT.DOC ^^^^^^^ That's the message it gives you if it doesn't know how to handle a file in an archive. To find out what the minimum version you need is, try pkzip -vt archivename ^ this means "technical" and will spew forth more information on the thing than you really need, but one of its features is that it will tell you the version of PKZIP used to compress each file and the version of PKUNZIP needed to uncompress each file. -- __ __ _ | ...!nexus.yorku.edu!xrtll!silver | always (__ | | | | |_ |_) >----------------------------------< searching __) | |_ \/ |__ | \ | if you don't like my posts, type | for _____________________/ find / -print|xargs cat|compress | SNTF