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- From: kirsch@usasoc.soc.mil (David Kirschbaum)
- Subject: v14i102: Portable UnZIP 3.1 (README)
- Sender: allbery@uunet.UU.NET (Brandon S. Allbery - comp.sources.misc)
-
- Posting-number: Volume 14, Issue 102
- Submitted-by: kirsch@usasoc.soc.mil (David Kirschbaum)
- Archive-name: unzip-3.1/README
-
- The generic portable Unix unzip is an ongoing project of the Info-ZIP
- newsletter group, based out of SIMTEL20. Starting with a fairly clean
- unzip, we've (1) added many functions, (2) ported it to a WIDE range
- of Unix (and other) systems, (3) continue to progress with more functions,
- debugging, etc.
-
- The major problems in porting included "big-endian" (as in the 68000
- family) vs. Intel fashion (lo .. high), word sizes (which create MAJOR
- problems when defining structures, long integer calculations, memcpy
- not performing as expected, etc.
-
- We've solved them all .. except for the Crays .. sigh ..
-
- Following are some of the systems our Makefile is prepared to support:
-
- Xenix/386 (tested on 2.3.1)
- Vax Sys V
- Encore Multimax
-
- Convex C200/C400
- Stellar gs-2000
- Sun 4/110, SunOS 4.0.3c
- HP 9000-835 SE, HP-UX Release A.B3.10 Ver D
- DEC 5820 (RISC), Test version of Ultrix v4.0
- IBM RT 6150 under AIX 2.2.1
-
- 680X0, DIAB dnix 5.2/5.3 (a Swedish System V clone)
- Sun3 68020, SunOS 4.0.3
- Amdahl (IBM) mainframe, UTS (SysV) 1.2.4 and 2.0.1
-
- Ultrix
- VAX8600 w/Ultrix OS
- VAX 11-780, BSD 4.3
-
- NeXT 68030 BSD 4.3+Mach
-
- Pyramid 90X, probably all, under >= OSx4.1, BSD universe
-
- Silicon Graphics (tested on Personal Iris 4D20 w/IRIX v3.2.2)
-
- There's also a Coherent version, a Minix version, an Atari (Turbo C)
- version .. and it USED to compile and run in MS-DOS (Turbo C) (tho
- we haven't tested that lately: could be it's broke now).
-
- As you can guess, this is NOT a polished product yet. We're still working
- on enhancements, JUST found a long-standing bug (in the v3.14 beta) that
- kept popping up in Sun4 systems, etc. There isn't any decent documentation,
- the historical files are a mess .. etc.
-
- But the fielded product (v3.10) is working correctly across a WIDE range
- providing you with the ability to view, test, and extract PKZIP .ZIP files
- with various text and filename conversion.
-
- Use it in good health. We'll be fielding periodic updates.
-
- If you wish to monitor progress, you should subscribe to the Info-ZIP
- newsletter (details in the archives). However, do NOT expect to be kept
- up to date with the source via periodic EMail mailings! If you can't
- reach SIMTEL20 via anonymous ftp or other means to snarf the source from
- there (in .ARC or TAR-Z format), you're out of luck. You'll just have
- to wait until we update these archives here.
-
- Regards,
-
- David Kirschbaum
- Toad Hall
- Info-ZIP Coordinator
- kirsch@usasoc.soc.mil
-