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- Rezip is a handy batch file that should be used with PKZIP 2.04g or the
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- latest version availible. If you download a file from a BBS that was
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- compressed with an earlier version of PKZIP (which is very likely), and you
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- have that zip file downloaded into a directory with only other zip files
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- (such as the upload/download directory specified within your favorite
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- communication utility) and NO non *.zip files, you can quickly `rezip' that
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- zip file to your latest version of PKZIP quickly with REZIP, often saving
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- several K depending on the file size. (I have found that even when the BBSs
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- are using the latest version, I still can a little better compression than
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- them, for some reason, if I rezip the file.)
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- To use rezip, copy the ZIP.BAT, REZIP.BAT, and REMOVE.COM files into a
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- directory that is in your path (such as your archives directory). Type
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- "REZIP zipfile" and REZIP will unzip your specified zip file, then delete it,
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- then rezip all NON *.ZIP files using the same name.
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- Also, if you pass the letters "CU" (without the slash) to rezip, it will
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- "clean up", that is, delete ALL the NON *.ZIP files within the current
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- directory, including any that were there beforehand, so be careful !
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- Example: REZIP MYZIP CU will rezip with cleanup, otherwise, no cleanup is
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- done, and all the unzipped files plus the new zip will be present.
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- Note: Rezip uses the -EX parameter for MAXIMUM COMPRESSION. If you
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- don't like this, change the -EX parameter within the "ZIP.BAT" to whatever
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- you desire, but not using maximum compression sort of defeats the purpose of
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- REZIP. REZIP does not use any other special parameters, if you regularly
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- use some parameter, modify the ZIP.BAT file accordingly.
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- Note: The PKZIP and PKUNZIP files must be in your path for REZIP to
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- work, and they must be called PKZIP and PKUNZIP. (Although I rename PKUNZIP
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- to UNZIP for ease of use, and use the ZIP batch file to call PKUNZIP with
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- maximum compression, so I don't have to specify it all the time (McKaffee
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- should have made it the default). If these names change, change them
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- accordingly in ZIP.BAT.
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- Hopefully, you will find these files somewhat usefull, they are
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- distributed as FREEWARE, PUBLIC DOMAIN, NO STRINGS ATTATCHED ! In fact, I'm
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- not even going to tell you my name, the author, in case some idiot deletes
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- some valuable files that he can't unerase using this product and tries to sue
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- me ! Thats it, if you want to know how REZIP works, look at it, it is real
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- easy to follow. ARMAGEDDON WILL BE WON FOR ETERNITY ON SEPTEMBER 1994