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File README for:

funzip2.zip   OS/2 2.x executable and docs for Info-ZIP's FUnZip (Filter UnZip)

8 July 1993

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BEFORE YOU ASK:  UnZip, its companion utility Zip, and related utilities
and support files can be found in many places; read the file "Where" for
further details.  To contact the authors with suggestions, bug reports,
or fixes, continue reading this file (README) and, if this is part of a
source distribution, the file "ZipRules".  Also in source distributions:
read "BUGS" for a list of known bugs and possible future features, and see
"Contents" for a commented listing of all the files included.

NOTE:  This is a special OS/2-only distribution of 32-bit funzip.exe and
documentation.  Ordinarily it is distributed only with UnZip, but it was
not ported to OS/2 at the time of the last release, and the next release
is at least a couple of months off.  Note that this version is based on
code which is technically still a beta version (as if OS/2 users would
even notice :-) ); it's basically just as well tested as a normal release,
but the source code is not yet publicly available.

ALSO NOTE:  Info-ZIP's mailing addresses have CHANGED!  See below.
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GENERAL INFO
------------
UnZip is an extraction utility for archives compressed in .zip format (also
called "zipfiles").  Although highly compatible with PKWARE's PKZIP and
PKUNZIP utilities for MS-DOS (in addition to Info-ZIP's own Zip program),
our primary objectives have been portability and other-than-MSDOS func-
tionality.

This version of UnZip has been ported to a wide array of hardware--from
micros to supercomputers--and operating systems:  Unix (many flavors), VMS
OS/2, Minix, MSDOS (+ Windows), NT, TOPS-20, Amiga, Atari TOS and Macintosh.
UnZip features not found in PKUNZIP include source code; default extraction
of directory trees (with a switch to defeat this, rather than the reverse);
VMS, Macintosh and OS/2 extended file attributes; and, of course, the ability
to run under most of your favorite operating systems.  Plus, it's free. :-)

For source distributions, see the main Contents file for a list of what's
included.  The individual operating systems' Contents files (for example,
VMS/Contents) may list important compilation info in addition to explaining
what files are what, so be sure to read them if you're not compiling under
Unix.  Some of the ports have their own, special README files, so be sure
to look for those, too.

See unzip.1 or unzip.doc for usage (or zipinfo.1/zipinfo.doc for ZipInfo
usage, or--do you sense a pattern here?--funzip.1/funzip.doc for FUnZip
usage).  Unfortunately the VMS versions of these documents are out of date
now; we hope to correct this someday. :-)


NEW FEATURES
------------
New features in this version include full Amiga and TOPS-20 support, funzip
ports to OS/2 and MS-DOS, ...   [under construction]


DISTRIBUTION
------------
Insofar as C compilers are rare on some platforms and the authors only
have direct access to Unix, VMS, OS/2, MS-DOS and Amiga systems, others
may wish to provide ready-to-run executables.  There is no problem with
this; we require only that such distributions include this README file,
the Where file, the COPYING file (contains copyright/redistribution
information), and the appropriate documentation files (unzip.doc and/or
unzip.1 for UnZip, etc.).  If the local system provides a way to make
self-extracting archives in which both the executables and text files
may be stored together, that is best; otherwise we suggest a bare UnZip
executable and a separate zipfile containing the remaining text and
binary files.


BUGS AND NEW PORTS:  CONTACTING INFO-ZIP
----------------------------------------
All bug reports and patches (context diffs only, please!) should go to
[e-mail] (or [e-mail], for In-
ternet folks), which is the e-mail address for the Info-ZIP authors.
Suggestions for new features can be sent to [e-mail], a
mailing list for the Info-ZIP beta testers, for discussion (the authors
hang out here as well, of course), although we don't promise to act on
all suggestions.  If it is something which is manifestly useful, sending
the required patches to zip-bugs directly is likely to produce a quicker
response than asking us to do it--the authors are always somewhat short
on time.  (Please do NOT send patches to the info-zip address.)  If you
are considering a port, however, please check in with the authors FIRST,
since the code is constantly being updated behind the scenes (witness
the new Amiga and TOPS-20 ports in this version; VM/CMS and QDOS ports
are under construction).  We'll arrange to send you the latest source.
The alternative is the possibility that your hard work will be tucked
away in a sub-archive and pretty much ignored, or ignored altogether if
someone else has already done the port (and you'd be surprised how often
this happens...).

If you'd like to keep up to date with our UnZip (and companion Zip utility)
development, join the ranks of beta testers, add your own thoughts and con-
tributions, etc., send a two-line mail message containing the commands HELP
and LIST (on separate lines in the body of the message, not on the subject
line) to [e-mail].  You'll receive two messages listing the
various Info-ZIP mailing-list formats which are available (and also various
unrelated lists) and instructions on how to subscribe to one or more of them
(courtesy of Hunter Goatley).


Greg Roelofs (Cave Newt), UnZip maintainer/developer guy,
with inspiration from David Kirschbaum