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From: madler@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Mark Adler)
Newsgroups: comp.compression
Subject: Re: Is PKZIP for Unix available now?
Message-ID: <1991Apr8.231629.3120@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 8 Apr 91 23:16:29 GMT
References: <1991Apr5.020101.12632@math.ufl.edu> <1991Apr5.085924.15666@nntp-server.caltech.edu> <1991Apr8.195351.4783@netcom.COM>
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In article <1991Apr8.195351.4783@netcom.COM> ergo@netcom.COM (Isaac Rabinovitch) writes:
>In <1991Apr5.085924.15666@nntp-server.caltech.edu> madler@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Mark Adler) writes:
>>And, ahem, no, it's not released yet.  Real Soon Now.  It works, but
>>implosion is too slow.  It is at 0.7 now.  The plan is to get VMS
>
>So why not release it?  Taking hours to extract an archive may be
>painful, but not as painful as not be able to extract it at all.

I should have pointed out in my posting that UNzip *is* available now.
The source for Unzip 4.01 can be found at simtel20.army.mil in the
directory pd1:<misc.unix> as unzip401.arc and unzip401.tar-z (the
latter would be renamed to unzip401.tar.Z on a Unix system).  It works
on a very wide range of Unix systems, as well as VMS and MSDOS.

Explosion (the opposite of implosion) is quite fast in unzip.

Mark Adler
madler@pooh.caltech.edu