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.!
.!  File:    ZIP.RNH
.!
.!  Author:    Hunter Goatley
.!
.!  Date:    October 22, 1991
.!
.!  Description:
.!
.!    RUNOFF source file for portable ZIP on-line help for VMS.
.!    Adapted from ZIP.DOC, distributed with ZIP.
.!
.!    To build:    $ RUNOFF ZIP.RNH
.!            $ LIBR/HELP/INSERT libr ZIP
.!
.!  Modification history:
.!
.!    Hunter Goatley        22-OCT-1991 20:45
.!        Genesis.
.!    Jean-loup Gailly    25 March 92
.!        Adaptation to zip 1.6.
.!    Igor Mandrichenko    9-JUN-1992
.!        Added explanation of -V option.
.!    Jean-loup Gailly    14 June 92
.!        Adaptation to zip 1.8.
.!    Jean-loup Gailly    20 Aug 92
.!        Adaptation to zip 1.9.
.!
.noflags
.lm4 .rm72
.indent -4
1 ZIP
.br
Zip is a compression and file packaging utility for Unix, MSDOS, OS/2, and
VMS.  It is analogous to a combination of tar and compress and is
compatible with PKZIP (Phil Katz ZIP) for MSDOS systems.
.sk
There is a companion to Zip called UnZip (of course).  Zip and UnZip can
work with files produced by PKZIP under MSDOS, and PKZIP and PKUNZIP can
work with files produced by Zip.
.sk
Zip 1.9 is compatible with PKZIP 1.93a.
Note that pkunzip 1.10 cannot extract files produced by pkzip 1.93a
or zip 1.9. You must use pkzip 1.93a or unzip 5.0 to extract them.
.sk
For a brief help on Zip and Unzip, run each without specifying any
parameters on the command line.
.sk
Zip puts one or more compressed files into a single "zip file" along with
information about the files, including the name, path if requested, date
and time last modified, protection, and check information to verify the
fidelity of each entry.  Zip can pack an entire directory structure in a
zip file with a single command.  Compression ratios of 2:1 to 3:1 are
common for text files.  Zip has has one compression method (deflation) and
can also store files without compression. It automatically chooses the better
of the two for each file to be compressed.
.sk
Zip is useful for packaging a set of files to send to someone or for
distribution; for archiving or backing up files; and for saving disk space
by temporarily compressing unused files or directories.
.sk
Format:
.sk;.lm+1;.literal
ZIP [-options] [-b path] [-n suffixes] [-t mmddyy] zipfile file(s) [-x list]
.end literal;.lm-1
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.indent -4
2 Options
.br
The default action of Zip is to add or replace zipfile entries from list, which
can include the special name -@ to read names from SYS$INPUT.  The following
list of options was taken from the on-line help generated when Zip is run
without any command-line parameters:
.sk
.literal
  -f   freshen: only changed files
  -d   delete entries in zipfile
  -k   simulate PKZIP made zipfile
  -h   show this help
  -r   recurse into directories
  -q   quiet operation
  -c   add one-line comments
  -b   use "path" for temp files
  -o   make zipfile as old as latest entry
  -w   append the VMS version number to name stored in zip file
  -x   exclude the names that follow from those operated on
  -u   update: only changed or new files
  -m   move into zipfile (delete files)
  -g   allow growing existing zipfile
  -l   translate end-of-lines
  -j   junk (don't record) directory names
  -0   store only
  -1   compress faster
  -9   compress better
  -n   don't compress theses suffixes
  -z   add zipfile comment
  -t   only do files after "mmddyy"
  -L   show software license
  -V   save VMS file attributes
.end literal
.!------------------------------------------------------------------------------
.indent -4
2 How_To_Use_Zip
.br
The simplest use of Zip is as follows:
.sk;.indent 10;$ zip stuff *
.sk
This will create the file "STUFF.ZIP" (assuming it does not exist) and put
all the files in the current directory in STUFF.ZIP in a compressed form.
The .ZIP suffix is added automatically, unless that file name given
contains a dot already.  This allows specifying suffixes other than ".ZIP".
.sk
To zip up an entire directory, the command:
.sk;.indent 10
$ zip -r foo *.*
.sk
will create the file "FOO.ZIP" containing all the files and directories in
the in the current directory.  The "r" option means recurse through the
directory structure.
.sk
You may want to make a zip file that contains the files in [.FOO], but not
record the directory name, FOO.  You can use the -j (junk path) option to
leave off the path:
.sk;.indent 10
$ zip -j foo [.foo]*.*
.sk
You might be zipping to save disk space, in which case you could:
.sk;.indent 10
$ zip -rm foo *.txt
.sk
where the "m" option means "move".  This will delete all files matching
*.txt after making FOO.ZIP.  No deletions will be done until the zip has
completed with no errors.  This option is obviously more dangerous and
should be used with care.
.sk
If the zip file already exists, these commands will replace existing or add
new entries to the zip file.  For example, if you were really short on disk
space, you might not have enough room simultaneously to hold the directory
[.FOO] and the compressed FOO.ZIP.  In this case, you could do it in steps.
If [.FOO] contained the subdirectories [.TOM], [.DICK], and [.HARRY], then
you could:
.sk;
.indent 10;$ zip -rm foo [.foo.tom]
.indent 10;$ zip -rm foo [.foo.dick]
.indent 10;$ zip -rm foo [.foo.harry]
.sk
where the first command would create FOO.ZIP, and the next two would add to
it.  At the completion of each zip command, the files in the directory just
zipped would be deleted, making room in which the next Zip command could
work.
.!------------------------------------------------------------------------------
.indent -4
2 Modifying_Existing_Zip_Files
.br
When given the name of an existing zip file with the above commands, Zip
will replace identically named entries in the Zip file or add entries for
new names.  For example, if FOO.ZIP exists and contains foo/file1 and
foo/file2, and the directory [.FOO] contains the files foo/file1 and
foo/file3, then:
.sk;.indent 10
$ zip -r foo foo
.sk
will replace foo/file1 in foo.zip and add foo/file3 to FOO.ZIP.  After
this, FOO.ZIP contains foo/file1, foo/file2, and foo/file3, with foo/file2
unchanged from before.
.sk
When changing an existing zip file, Zip will write a temporary file with
the new contents, and only replace the old one when the zip has completed
with no errors. You can use
the -b option to specify a different path (usually a different dev- ice) to
put the temporary files in.  For example:
.sk;.indent 10
$ zip -b scratch$:[tmp] stuff *
.sk
will put the temporary zip file and the temporary compression files in the
directory "SCRATCH$:[TMP]", copying over STUFF.ZIP in the current directory
when done.
.sk
If you are only adding entries to a zip file, not replacing, and the -g
option is given, then Zip grows (appends to) the file instead of copying
it.  The danger of this is that if the operation fails, the original zip
file is corrupted and lost.
.sk
There are two other ways to change or add entries in a zip file that are
restrictions of simple addition or replacement.  The first is -u (update)
which will add new entries to the zip file as before but will replace
existing entries only if the modified date of the file is more recent than
the date recorded for that name in the zip file.  For example:
.sk;.indent 10
$ zip -u stuff *
.sk
will add any new files in the current directory, and update any changed
files in the zip file STUFF.ZIP.  Note that Zip will not try to pack
STUFF.ZIP into itself when you do this. Zip will always exclude the zip
file from the files on which to be operated.
.sk
The second restriction is -f (freshen) which, like update, will only
replace entries with newer files; unlike update, will not add files that
are not already in the zip file. For this option, you may want to simply
freshen all of the files that are in the specified zip file.  To do this
you would simply:
.sk;.indent 10
$ zip -f foo
.sk
Note that the -f option with no arguments freshens all the entries in the
zip file.  The same is true of -u, and hence "zip -u foo" and "zip -f foo"
both do the same thing.
.sk
This command should be run from the same directory from which the original
zip command was run, since paths stored in zip files are always relative.
.sk
Another restriction that can be used with adding, updating, or freshening
is -t (time), which will not operate on files modified earlier than the
specified date.  For example:
.sk;.indent 10
$ zip -rt 120791 infamy [.FOO]*.*
.sk
will add all the files in [.FOO] and its subdirectories that were last
modified on December 7, 1991, or later to the zip file INFAMY.ZIP.
.sk
Also, files can be explicitly excluded using the -x option:
.sk;.indent 10
$ zip -r foo [.FOO] -x *.obj
.sk
which will zip up the contents of [.FOO] into FOO.ZIP but exclude all the
files that end in ".OBJ".
.sk
The last operation is -d (delete) which will remove entries from a zip
file.  An example might be:
.sk;.indent 10
$ zip -d foo foo/harry/*.* *.obj
.sk
which will remove all of the files that start with "foo/harry/" and all of
the files that end with ".OBJ" (in any path).
.sk
Under MSDOS, -d is case sensitive when it matches names in the zip file.
This allows deleting names that were zipped on other systems, but requires
that the names be entered in upper case if they were zipped on an MSDOS
system, so that the names can be found in the zip file and deleted.
.!------------------------------------------------------------------------------
.indent -4
2 More_Options
.br
As mentioned before, Zip will use the best of two methods: deflate or store.
The option -0 will force Zip to use store on all files. For example:
.sk;.indent 10
zip -r0 foo foo
.sk
will zip up the directory foo into foo.zip using only store.
.sk
The speed of deflation can also be controlled with options -1 (fastest
method but less compression) to -9 (best compression but slower). The
default value is -5. For example:
.sk;.indent 10
zip -r8 foo foo
.sk
In nearly all cases, a file that is already compressed cannot be compressed
further by Zip, or if it can, the effect is minimal.  The -n option
prevents Zip from trying to compress files that have the
given suffixes.  Such files are simply stored (0%
compression) in the
output zip file, so that Zip doesn't waste its time trying to compress
them. The suffixes are separated by
either colons or semicolons.  For example, in DCL:
.sk
.indent 10;$ zip -rn ".Z:.zip:.tiff:.gif:.snd" foo [.FOO]*.*
.sk
will put everything in [.FOO] into FOO.ZIP, but will store any files that end
in .Z, .ZIP, .TIFF, .GIF, or .SND without trying to compress them.  (Image and
sound files often have their own specialized compression methods.)
The default suffix list is ".Z:.zip;.zoo:.arc:.lzh:.arj".
The environment variable ZIPOPT can be used to change this default. For
example:
.sk
.indent 10;$ ZIPOPT == "-n .Z:.zip:.tiff:.gif:.snd"
.sk
The variable ZIPOPT can be used for any option and can include several
options.
.sk
Under Unix and under OS/2 (if files from a HPFS are stored), Zip will store
the full path (relative to the current path) and name of the file (or just
the name if -j is specified) in the zip file along with the Unix
attributes, and it will mark the entry as made under Unix.  If the zip file
is intended for PKUNZIP under MSDOS, then the -k (Katz) option should be
used to attempt to convert the names and paths to conform to MSDOS, store
only the MSDOS attribute (just the user write attribute from Unix), and
mark the entry as made under MSDOS (even though it wasn't).
.sk
The -o (older) option will set the "last modified" time of the zip file to
the latest "last modified" time of the entries in the zip file.  This can
be used without any other operations, if desired.  For example:
.sk;.indent 10
$ zip -o foo
.sk
will change the last modified time of FOO.ZIP to the latest time of the
entries in FOO.ZIP.
.sk
The -e and -c options operate on all files updated or added to the zip
file.  Encryption (-e) will prompt for a password on the terminal and will
not echo the password as it is typed (if stderr is not a TTY, Zip will exit
with an error). New zip entries will be encrypted using that password.  For
added peace of mind, you can use -ee, which will prompt for the password
twice, checking that the two are the same before using it.
.sk
One-line comments can be added for each file with the -c option.  The zip
file operations (adding or updating) will be done first, and you will then
be prompted for a one-line comment for each file.  You can then enter the
comment followed by return, or just return for no comment.
.sk
The -z option will prompt you for a multi-line comment for the entire zip
file.  This option can be used by itself, or in combination with other
options.  The comment is ended by a line containing just a period, or an
end of file condition (^D on Unix, ^Z on MSDOS, OS/2, and VAX/VMS).
.sk
The -q (quiet) option eliminates the informational messages and comment
prompts while Zip is operating.  This might be used in shell scripts, for
example, or if the zip operation is being performed as a background task
("$ spawn/nowait zip -q foo *.c").
.sk
Zip can take a list of file names to operate on from SYS$INPUT using the
"-@"
option.
.!  In Unix, this option can be used with the find command to extend
.!greatly the functionality of Zip. For example, to zip up all the C source
.!files in the current directory and its subdirectories, you can:
.!.sk
.!find . -type f -name "*.[ch]" -print | zip source -@
.!.sk
.!Note that the pattern must be quoted to keep the shell from expanding it.
.sk
Under VMS only, the -w option will append the version number of the files
to the name and zip up multiple versions of files.  Without -w, Zip will
only use the most recent version of the specified file(s).
.sk
One more option that valid only under VMS is -V option. This option saves
all (hopefully) file attributes needed to make EXACT copy of the
file after extraction from archive. To extract a file with saved attributes
use UnZip version 4.2 or later. Note that to specify this option you should
quote it ("-V"). Be carefull: it's rather hard (if possible at all) to extract
a file archived on VMS with this option specified on other systems. See
documentation on UnZip for further information.
.sk
The -l option translates the Unix end-of-line character LF into the
MSDOS convention CR LF. This option should not be used on binary files.
This option can be used on Unix if the zip file is intended for PKUNZIP
under MSDOS.
.sk
If Zip is run with the -h option, or with no arguments and standard output is
a terminal, the license and the command-argument and option help is shown.
The -L option just shows the license.
.!------------------------------------------------------------------------------
.indent -4
2 Copyright
.br
     Copyright (C) 1990,1991 Mark Adler, Richard B. Wales, Jean-loup Gailly,
     Igor Mandrichenko and Kai Uwe Rommel. Permission is granted to any
     individual or institution to use, copy, or redistribute this software
     so long as all of the original files are included unmodified,
     that it is not sold for profit, and that this copyright
     notice is retained.
.!------------------------------------------------------------------------------
.indent -4
2 Acknowledgements
.br
     Thanks to R. P. Byrne for his Shrink.Pas program which
     inspired this project; to Phil Katz for making the zip file format,
     compression format, and .ZIP filename extension all public
     domain; to Steve Burg and Phil Katz for help on unclear points of
     the deflate format; to Keith Petersen for providing a mailing list and
     ftp site for the INFO-ZIP group to use; and most importantly, to
     the INFO-ZIP group itself (listed in the file
     infozip.who) without whose tireless testing and bug-fixing
     efforts a portable Zip would not have been possible.
     Finally we should thank (blame) the INFO-ZIP moderator,
     David Kirschbaum for getting us into this mess in the first
     place.
.!------------------------------------------------------------------------------
.indent -4
2 Bugs
.sk
     WARNING: zip files produced by this version of zip must not be
     *updated* by zip 1.0 or pkzip 1.10 or pkzip 1.93a, if they contain
     encrypted members, or if they have been produced in a pipe or on a non
     seekable device. The old versions of zip or pkzip would destroy the
     zip structure. The old versions can list the contents of the zip file
     but cannot extract it anyway (because of the new compression algorithm).
     If you do not use encryption and use regular disk files, you do
     not have to care about this problem.
.sk
     Under VMS, not all of the odd file formats are treated properly.  Only
     zip files of format stream-LF and fixed length 512 are expected to work
     with Zip.  Others can be converted using Rahul Dhesi's BILF
     program.  This version of Zip does handle some of the
     conversion internally.
     When using Kermit to transfer zip files from Vax to MSDOS, type "set
     file type block" on the Vax.  When transfering from MSDOS to Vax, type
     "set file type fixed" on the Vax.  In both cases, type "set file type
     binary" on MSDOS.
.sk
     Under VMS, zip hangs for file specification that uses DECnet
     syntax (foo::*.*).
.sk
     LIKE ANYTHING ELSE THAT'S FREE, ZIP AND ITS ASSOCIATED UTILITIES
     ARE PROVIDED AS IS AND COME WITH NO WARRANTY OF ANY
     KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. IN NO EVENT WILL THE
     COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES RESULTING FROM
     THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
.sk
     That having been said, please send any problems or comments
     via email to the Internet address [e-mail].  For
     bug reports, please include the version of Zip, the make
     options you used to compile it, the machine and operating
     system you are using, and as much additional information as
     possible.  Thank you for your support.
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