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From: ressler@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu (Mike "IR" Ressler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: ZIP on Unix
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Date: 3 Jun 91 21:26:28 GMT
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In article <1991Jun3.193357.8930@hubcap.clemson.edu> dcrane@hubcap.clemson.edu (Darren Crane) writes:
> From article <1991Jun2.163539.13342@midway.uchicago.edu>, by muns@quads.uchicago.edu (Ziad Munson):
>> I am curious if anyone knows of pkzip/unzip software that runs on Unix and
>> is compatible with the programs of the same name on DOS.

> I am using the lharc compression to transfer from pc to unix becuase the
> source code to lharc (in C) is available, and I have yet to find the source
> for pkzip.  Please execuse my igornance with this news system, this is the
> first time I have used it.  So I'm sorry I don't know how to send the unix
> end of lharc to you.

But unzip (at least) does exist for Unix courtesy of the Info-ZIP project - I
use it on my machine regularly. Try wuarchive.wustl.edu in mirrors/unix-c or
something like that for the package unzip41.tar-z. From comments in the unzip
package, it looks like there is (or soon will be) a zip program. I have had
zero problems bringing stuff from my 386 at home and unzipping it on the
sun4's we have at work. Because I rarely transport things from work to home,
my present lack of zip is not a big deal (I use tar and compress if I have
to).
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  Mike Ressler - Infrared Photon Jockey     ressler@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu

  If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger sledgehammer.