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RBBS & ZIP
by Ken Goosens
27 March 1989
RBBS 17.2 supports any file library and compression technique just as
well as ARC, provided you have enough memory to support shelling.
If you want to set up RBBS to support ZIP, do the following:
(1) set the default extension to ZIP in config.
(2) where you say in config to look for command.com, put in
TZIP.BAT. Be sure to put PKUNZIP.EXE in the path as well.
(3) RBBS will disallow an upload not having the default extension
if a file exists with the same prefix and the default extension.
This should eliminate duplicates. E.g. SORT232.ARC would be
rejected because we have a ZIP version if ZIP is default and
there is a file called SORT232.ZIP.
(4) You cause uploads with extension <u-ext> to be converted to
default extension <d-ext> by including where command.com a
file named C<u-ext><d-ext>.BAT, which RBBS will shell to.
Included in the utilities is are 3 BAT files for converting:
CARCZIP.BAT - convert ARC to ZIP. Put in drive/path of
command.com specified in Config. Change the 4th parameter
to the drive/path where your uploads go. Make sure
PKUNPAK.EXE is in your search path.
CPAKZIP.BAT - convert PAK to ZIP. Same directions as
for CARCZIP.BAT. Make sure PAK.EXE is in your drive
path.
CALLZ.BAT - bat file other 2 invoke. Makes work directory
using node name off of upload directory, extracts files
into it, zip's all files from there into your upload
directory, deletes old file, deletes work directory.
Uses KDY.EXE which deletes files and directory without
requiring confirmation. Resets errorlevel to 0 at
end.
The bat files take under 100K.
(5) RBBS will work properly with Smith's ZIPTV.EXE, which supports
viewing not only a list of the files in a ZIP, but viewing text
files inside the zip as well. The new VZIP.BAT distributed
works with ZIPTV.