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- From: roe2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Cave Newt)
- Subject: Re: Why ZIP/UNZIP slower than DOS version?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.053428.23162@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: University of Chicago
- References: <1992Jul31.050921.19572@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 05:34:28 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul31.050921.19572@athena.mit.edu> chchen@stat.fsu.edu writes:
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- >BTW, a little warning. I used a shareware program called zipsplit
- >to split zip file made by Linux zip in DOS and when I wanted to
- >unzip the sub-zipped files in Linux, the unzip won't do it.
-
- Presumably you are using the Norwegian ZIPSPLIT program by J. H. Holm;
- it has a small bug in it. UnZip 5.0 has code to deal with this, but
- since you're already using Info-ZIP code, why bother? Zip 1.0 and later
- are distributed with a zipsplit program.
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- Greg Roelofs
-