Bob Wright wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

(Infozip...)

 RJT> I have these,  and also the PKware product for OS/2.  Is there any
 RJT> particular advantage to going with the Infozip products?  Aside from the
 RJT> fact that they're freeware,  that is...

 BW> In my case, inertia.  I never got around to getting the PKware 
 BW> one.  "Free" didn't hurt any, either ;)

I suppose I oughta get familiar with it one of these days.  Probably they'll
work better,  too.

 BW>> ZIPCONTROL, although I've tried others along the way.

 RJT> What does that do for you?

 BW> Gives a way to actually review the files that are in the 
 BW> archive... readme's for example.  You know the type, the one 
 BW> that says "unzip this archive into a directory using -? -? -?.  
 BW> Note: if you don't do it this way, horrible things will 
 BW> happen."  Really useful since you have to unzip the thing to 
 BW> find out that you've done it wrong.

I currently use InspectA for that purpose,  and while I'm real used to it and
it works well for me for the most part,  there are a couple of quirks that are 
starting to really bug me about it.  It's not able to handle multiple gigs of
free space properly,  and gets *real* slow when it comes to very large
directories,  taking a while to display or re-scan them.  The latest one is
the drive availability bit.  I have a couple of network drives mapped to drive 
letters on the OS/2 box,  and when that machine isn't on it takes *forever* to 
get a drive listing when I want to switch to a different one.  The dos version 
does the same thing when I don't happen to have a cdrom in the drive,  or have 
an audio disk in there.

 BW> If you give it a path to a virus scanner, it will scan it 
 BW> first. 

Inspect'll do that,  too,  if you want.

 BW> It has the ability to do a "temporary" unzip (eval) and then 
 BW> delete the unzipped files.

 BW> You can use a set of default parameters, and don't have to 
 BW> remember the command-line ones.

Overall,  it sounds like it's worth a look.  Now to try and get a hold of
it...

 BW>  - Origin: Merlin's Tower - Surrey, BC (1:153/944)



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