Re: ZIP & PKUNZIP ok together? Questions...

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From: Peter Moylan
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 00:00

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Keith Bennett (kbennett@cpcug.org) wrote:

>I would like to use ZIP (OS/2) to create a zip file that will be
>unzipped either by UNZIP (OS/2) or PKUNZIP (DOS).  

I'm using a mixture of DOS and OS/2 stuff, so I do this all
the time.  I've never had a complaint from the DOS-only
people that they couldn't unzip my zip files, except sometimes
from people using older versions of PKUNZIP.

>I know that the -k option tells ZIP to create a PKZIP-compatible zip
>file.  What exactly does this translate to in terms of file structure?

As far as I know, the only important effect of -k is to
store file names in the 8.3 format.  PKUNZIP wouldn't like
long file names.  As for extended attributes: I'm not quite
sure what happens here, except that PKUNZIP seems to be
quite happy to ignore them.  (Possibly -k is removing the
extended attributes; I've never checked this point.)

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Subject: Re: ZIP & PKUNZIP ok together?  Questions...
Date: 1996/09/12
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