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From: disd@hubcap.clemson.edu (Gary Heffelfinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ZIP archive format for the amiga?
Message-ID: <4977@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Date: 1 Apr 89 19:34:05 GMT
References: <10244@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
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From article <10244@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, by amiga@athena.mit.edu (MITAUG Staff):
> Well;  I've been poking around some bbs's that contain alot of IBM
> files (Yuck, I cleaned by keys when I was done) and most of them seem
> to use a ZIP format.  Now, is there a utility that unZIP's these files
> on the amiga?  While I'm at it are there any that will undo SIT and
> PIT files?
  
I haven't seen one yet, but the author of ZIP made provision for it.
It looks like the archive file that ZIP creates contains information about
which machine it was created on.  One of the valid values is for Amiga.

I think PKWARE is the creator of ZIP.  You may wish to contact them.

  
PIT and SIT files on Amiga?  Why? :-)
 
Gary



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