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From: cooper@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (Jim Cooper)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: ZIP files.
Date: 1 Nov 1993 20:56:17 -0600
Organization: Armstrong Laboratory, Brooks AFB, TX
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I am a newbie with the whole UNIX thing.  At times I do not know which end
is up, so be gentle with me.

I have a requirement to unzip and zip files in PKZIP 1.1 format.

I have looked thru the man page on gunzip, but it appears as though it
does not support PKZIP files.  In fact, it says to use unzip for those
files.

I have searched sun-lamp high and low for unzip, but the only thing that
comes up is unzip.c in the gzip sources.  If I look at this file, it
has the header info for PKZIP.

So!  What is the story?  Does gunzip handle PKZIP files and, if not,
where does one find unzip for NetBSD.


-- 
TSgt Jim Cooper
Armstrong Laboratory/MIS
Brooks AFB, TX