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- From: jloup@chorus.fr (Jean-loup Gailly)
- Newsgroups: comp.compression
- Subject: Re: INFO-ZIP congretulations!
- Message-ID: <400@chorus.chorus.fr>
- Date: 7 Sep 92 13:32:43 GMT
- References: <3039@accucx.cc.ruu.nl> <3040@accucx.cc.ruu.nl> <1992Sep5.140817.21201@wheaton.wheaton.edu>
- Sender: jloup@chorus.chorus.fr
- Reply-To: jloup@chorus.fr (Jean-loup Gailly)
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- gmribeir@david.wheaton.edu (Glauber) writes about zip 1.9/unzip 5.0:
-
- > The only thing that doesn't work in ms-dog is funzip, and
- > probably very few people would care, anyway. But the funzip that
- > came with zip19p1x.zip either locks or reboots my machine.
-
- There is *no* funzip in zip19p1x.zip. If you have a copy with one in
- it, please delete it and get a correct version of zip19p1x.zip from a
- trustable ftp site such simtel and any of its mirrors, or garbo in
- Europe. (See comp.compression FAQ for details.) funzip is only
- distributed in source form in unzip50.zip or unzip50.tar.Z.
-
- funzip is almost useless on MSDOS, which does not have true pipes.
- This is why it was not included in the MSDOS makefiles and never
- released as an MSDOS .exe file. We should have put a big warning that
- funzip was not supported on MSDOS, sorry. We will do our best to
- support it for MSDOS in the next version of unzip (even though
- it's not very useful there).
-
- Jean-loup Gailly
- info-zip guy
-
- PS: thanks for the congratulations. They are appreciated.
-