From: "Jonadab the Unsightly One" <jonadab@bright.net>
Subject: Re: Package for creating/opening zip files
Date: 08 Feb 2003 18:04:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4r7e5q7z.fsf@jonadab.homeip.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87k7gcj0av.fsf@server.crasseux.com
Bijan Soleymani <bijan@psq.com> writes:
> However this requires external programs. I think the windows version
> expects pkunzip in the path. I am almost certain that info-zip (the
> free software zip) should be a drop in replacement, as info-zip is
> what is used in GNU/Linux.
It is functionally equivalent and compatible at the file format level,
but I'm not sure how drop-in it would be. The command-line arguments
are different for pkzip/pkunzip versus pkzipc (the newer win32 console
version; this comes with pkzip/pkunzip compatibility apps that just
translate the command-line and call pkzipc to do the work, but that is
not installed by default, for reasons I don't understand). I know
info-zip's command-line structure is substantially different also from
pkzip/pkunzip, but I'm not sure how similar info-zip's commandline may
be to that of pkzipc. It is also notable that pkzipc and info-zip can
handle certain filenames (e.g., .emacs) that will cause pkzip/pkunzip
to skip the file. (Also, _old_ versions of pkzip/pkunzip (pre-1996 or
so) do not support LFNs at all.)
It would be relatively easy to write a small app that takes
commandline arguments in the style of any of these tools, translates
them, and calls another of the tools to do the work. For example, a
tool that emulates info-zip by calling pkzipc or pkzip would not be a
terribly difficult piece of glue to construct. But I don't know
whether such a thing has been done (except, as I said, that pkzipc
comes (optionally) with such a frontend that emulates pkzip/pkunzip).
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-08 23:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-04 16:07 Package for creating/opening zip files Peter Lee
2003-02-04 16:32 ` Klaus Berndl
2003-02-04 19:18 ` Peter Lee
2003-02-07 2:23 ` Bijan Soleymani
2003-02-08 23:04 ` Jonadab the Unsightly One [this message]
2003-02-09 5:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
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