home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- File README for:
-
- funzip2.zip OS/2 2.x executable and docs for Info-ZIP's FUnZip (Filter UnZip)
-
- 8 July 1993
-
- __________________________________________________________________________
-
- 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.
- __________________________________________________________________________
-
-
- 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
- zip-bugs@wkuvx1.bitnet (or zip-bugs%wkuvx1.bitnet@ukcc.uky.edu, for In-
- ternet folks), which is the e-mail address for the Info-ZIP authors.
- Suggestions for new features can be sent to info-zip@wkuvx1.bitnet, 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 listserv@wkuvx1.bitnet. 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
-