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Please send questions, comments, bug reports, accolades, and ridicule
about Info-Zip's zip and unzip programs to the internet address:
zip-bugs@cs.ucla.edu
The authors and many contributors to these programs can be found in
the information files that come with the source for these programs.
Zip and unzip fit in the Utilities/Services category since they are
compression and decompression utilities much like compress and
uncompress, but with much better compression as well as cross-
platform compatibility.
They also fit in the Computer Science and Programming categories
since they come in source and illustrate state-of-the-art compression
techniques.
Zip (and unzip) can be used as a combination archiver/compressor
(decompressor/dearchiver) or as a pure compressor (decompressor).
For the latter, zip and unzip can be used as filters wherever the
Unix programs compress and zcat were used before as filters. As
an archiver, zip provides cross-platform transport of file-systems
for Unix, MSDOS, OS/2, VMS, Macintosh, Atari, Amiga, and others.
Zip and unzip were developed on a wide variety of systems, including
the NeXT under release 2.x. Please read the installation
instructions in each set of source files for how to compile zip and
unzip. In short, do a "make next" for both. There are
compiled versions for NeXTstep 3.0 along with the source on this
CD-ROM.
Because the US State Department classifies encryption software along
with munitions, it is illegal to export. However, it is not illegal
to import! Therefore, if you would like to compile zip with
encryption, please see the "Where" file in the zip distribution for
where to get the encryption code from.
Enjoy!
Mark Adler