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From: LC.YRS@forsythe.stanford.edu (Richard Stanton)
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Subject: Re: Binaries and which packing (Was Re: xx vs. uu)
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Date: 15 Feb 90 21:35:47 GMT
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In article <14727@zodiac.ukc.ac.uk>,
cur022@zodiac.ukc.ac.uk (Bob Eager) writes:
>In article <1990Feb14.134810.8305@uwasa.fi>, ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK) writes:
>> 2) We now have unzip available for unix, which means that file
>> integrity can be tested without first having to transfer to PC the
>> way it used to be.  Also .zip files can now be unpacked under unix.
>
>Remember there are other systems apart from MS-DOS and UNIX; how about
>the VMS and IBM communities? Perhaps the programs could be ported, but they
>need to be available, working, on those systems before day 1.
>
There is a VMS version of UNZIP, available in pd3:<misc.vaxvms> on
wsmr-simtel20.army.mil. It is dated 1989, and the source mentions
implosion, but I haven't actually tried it on an imploded file.
There are two compiled versions contained with the source, but
neither worked on my machine. However, compiling the source was
straightforward, and produced a working executable.

Richard Stanton