From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Package for creating/opening zip files Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 07:46:40 +0200 (IST) Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <4r7e5q7z.fsf@jonadab.homeip.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1044769590 25521 80.91.224.249 (9 Feb 2003 05:46:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 05:46:30 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18hkIP-0006dV-00 for ; Sun, 09 Feb 2003 06:46:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18hkJE-0001gC-00 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Feb 2003 00:47:20 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18hkJ4-0001g6-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Feb 2003 00:47:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18hkJ3-0001dd-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Feb 2003 00:47:09 -0500 Original-Received: from is.elta.co.il ([199.203.121.2]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18hkJ2-0001Y4-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Feb 2003 00:47:08 -0500 Original-Received: from is (is [199.203.121.2]) by is.elta.co.il (8.9.3/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA24116 for ; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 07:46:41 +0200 (IST) X-Sender: eliz@is Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <4r7e5q7z.fsf@jonadab.homeip.net> X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:6475 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:6475 On 8 Feb 2003, Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote: > 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. Emacs supports pkzip and InfoZip's zip/unzip. Any program that is not compatible to either of these will require changes in arc-mode.el to support it (or a wrapper program to implement the compatibility layer externally to Emacs).