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Main features still missing for next official version:
- multi disk zip files
- echo "password" | zip -e archive.zip * should work (Kevin M. Fritz)
- 32 bit file attributes
- remove contractions from zip error messages, make them clearer (Steve)
- display "[text]" for ascii files when not quiet (no -q) (Timo Salmi)
- Wildcard matching issues (msg from Paul Kienitz)
- does zipnote accept names with version number?
- for a WORM, zip should create temp file only when updating; new archives
should be created directly.
- APPNOTE.TXT specifies "4) The entries in the central directory may
not necessarily be in the same order that files appear in the zipfile"
but readzipfile() relies on same order.
- on Mac, MPW C 3.3.1 requires #if (a || b) ["#if a || b" taken as "#if a"]
- on Unix, let -S be "include non-regular files without reading from them"
(as pkzip on Unix). This requires unzip support.
- document exit codes
- zip -l should do ebcdic->ascii translation on CMS and MVS
- zip as subroutine (zdig/241)
- accept k and M in zipsplit
- store / (part of file name) as ! in OS/2 (problem only with -E ?)
Known bugs:
- On VMS, zip fails reading some files with "byte record too large for
user's buffer". You must use the "-V" option for such files.
- zip sometimes crashes on some versions of NetBSD (0.8, 0.9 and early
0.9-current), FreeBSD (<= 1.1) and BSDI (< 1.1) . This is due to a
bug in stdio.
Upgrading the stdio package in /usr/src/lib/libc/stdio should
fix the problem. See *BSD mirrors in src/lib/libc/stdio
You must at least replace setvbuf.o in libc.a with a newer version.
- on MSDOS, zip386.exe does not like "zip -bc: foo ..."
- on MSDOS, zip386.exe is sometimes much slower than zip.exe. This is
probably a problem with DJGPP (to be investigated).
- on NT with C shell, zip should not do file name expansion again.
- zip zipfile ... ignores existing zipfile if name does not have an extension
(except for the -A option, generally used on self-extracting files).
- For an sfx file without extension, "zip -A sfx" works but "zip sfx -A"
doesn't.
- When storing files in a zipfile (-0), zip marks all of them as binary.
- On VMS, indexed files are not restored correctly after zip -V and unzip.
(Don't know yet whether problem is in zip or unzip.)
- zip and unzip should use the same pattern matching rules, particularly
on MSDOS and OS/2. On OS/2, "zip foo *.*" should also match files
without extension.
Partially DONE (OS/2 "*.*" matches "*".)
- there should be a way to avoid updating archive members (only addition
of new files allowed)