From: ziplock@yabbs
To: fredbisc@yabbs
Subject: re: zip/unzip
Date: Wed Apr 28 19:21:38 1993

In message zip/unzip, fredbisc said:
> does anyone know of an anonymous ftp site where i can find an unzip file 
> for unix?  or does anyone know where i can get an account that has unzip 
> as a feature?  oh well thanks in advance.  you can e-mail me if it's more 
> convenient: fln2jes@cabell.vcu.edu.
The unzip project has made some pretty clean code and you should be able to
easily compile it on the machine where you have an account already.  Drop me
a line if you need help; I made it easily under SunOS 4.1.x, 3.5, Ultrix
4.2, NeXT 2.1 and 3.0, 386BSD and Linux.  Can't get much easier than that. 
Be aware that gunzip will unzip files compressed with zip (up to 1.9x of the
PKZip format) but only if they have a *single* item in the archive.  In
otherwords, GNU zip is a good replacement for Unix compress, but not a good
replacement for a real zip utility for manipulating DOS archives.ÿ