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From: keithe@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Encoding and compression for cbip (Was: xx vs. uu)
Keywords: unzip for unix
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Date: 15 Feb 90 17:24:13 GMT
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In article <5729@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> gilmore@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Scott Gilmore) writes:
>In article <52155@bu.edu.bu.edu> oneill@bass.bu.edu (Brian V O'Neill) writes:
>>I am not aware of a fully operational, portable ZIP program for Unix
>
>I have an unzip program here on a Vax running BSD 4.3 Unix which I got from
>somewhere via anonymous ftp.  I can't seem to find the address anywhere, but
>I'll keep looking.

The one I have notes that the original was done by Samuel Smith, and is dated
August 1989.  It came from comp.sources.misc, moderated by Brandon Allbery,
and was in v08i043 (volume 8, issue 43) of that newsgroup.  The archive name
assigned was unzip_gs.

The doc file indicates that both C and Turbo Pascal source are available, but I
only have the C source.  Moreover, the README states that the original C source
was rather Turbo C dependent, and that modifications were done by the submitter,
George Sipe, at Georgia Tech, to get it to run on BSD 4.3.  The source code
itself contains instructions for compiling with Turbo C, MSC 5.1 and on a "unix
pc," as well as George's note about "portabilizing" the code.

kEITHe