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Re: .zip on Linux
On Mon, 12 Aug 1996, Oleg Volkov wrote:
> Hi, All
>
> It is first time I see .zip files used in Unix. As you can guess
> I mention moz_xx.zip - applet's classes archive.
You mean the one that comes with Netscape? If so, you don't need to open
it! Just create /usr/local/netscape/java/classes/ and mv it there. It's
written in the readme. What version of Netscape do you have, btw? The new
3.0 betas have 'java_30' instead of 'moz_xx.zip'.
>
> It is interesting that:
> 1. gzip complain that .zip haz more than one entry and do nothing.
> It is usiall gzip's behavior with DOS.zip files.
> BTW, you can gunzip DOS.zip if it is ONE file.
> 2. pkzip work with this .zip well, but show that original files has
> long filenames with upper/lower case. As you can guess again
> DOS (pkzip work in DOS) trunckate filenames to 8.3 uppercase format.
>
> Is anybody hear/see/have/know about how unpack .zip files directly
> in UNIX ( I mean Linux off course ) ?
I installed Slackware 3.0.0 and it has Info-ZIP's 'zip' and 'unzip'
binaries preinstalled. Try to run 'unzip'. If it doesn't work, get it
from Info-ZIP.
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