Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!rochester!rutgers!bellcore!faline!thumper!gamma!mibte!jbh From: jbh@mibte.UUCP (James Harvey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: ZIP archive format for the amiga? Summary: Unix version? Message-ID: <2785@mibte.UUCP> Date: 6 Apr 89 17:07:37 GMT References: <4977@hubcap.clemson.edu: <1437@agora.UUCP> Organization: Michigan Bell Telephone Company Lines: 41 In article <1437@agora.UUCP>, billsey@agora.UUCP (Bill Seymour) writes: > From article <4977@hubcap.clemson.edu:, by disd@hubcap.clemson.edu (Gary Heffelfinger): > : 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. > > I downloaded the Amiga version of UnZIP from Plink just this > weekend... Do it should be showing up on a board near you RSN... > Is there a UNIX version of ZIP? I have been using ZOO mainly because I can easily port files between IBM, UNIX and my Amiga. > : Gary R Heffelfinger - disd@hubcap.clemson.edu > : "If it should become necessary to fight, could you arrange to find me > : some rocks to throw at them?" W.T. Riker > -- > -Bill Seymour ...tektronix!reed!percival!agora!billsey > ...tektronix!sequent!blowpig!billsey > Creative Microsystems Northwest Amiga Group At Home Sometimes > (503) 691-2552 (503) 656-7393 BBS (503) 640-0842 -- Jim Harvey | "Ask not for whom the bell Michigan Bell Telephone | tolls and you will only pay 29777 Telegraph | Station-to-Station rates." Southfield, Mich. 48034 | ulysses!gamma!mibte!jbh