Re: Off topic: ZIP formats

["J. R. Fox" jr_fox@xxxxxxxxxx]

Patricia M Godfrey wrote:

> I've just dicovered that the ZIP util I've been using for years (a Korean
> freeware package called ZipNall) cannot preserve directory structure when
> unzipping. (Don't ask me how I could have missed that all these years.) I
> have copies of WinZip and something called TurboZip with dates of 3/6/98
> and 9/22/98, respectively, on some shareware CDs. Would they be able to
> deal with current ZIP formats? Or have the structure and algorithms of
> ZIP changed since then, so that I have to go find a new util on the Web?
> ZIPNall has a date in 2000 and hasn't choked on anything yet. Thanks.

If not WinZip -- something of a standard for Win users, though it is not free
-- you might want to consider using the other prevalent standards, PKZIP or
INFOZIP. Both have all the features you might ever need, and I believe that
they are free. Certainly the latter is, and there has been a free version of
PK. The free version I am using on 3 platforms (2.50) has not been revised
in quite some time, but I have found it entirely satisfactory. INFOZIP, on
the other hand, has had a number of revised versions come down the pike over
the last 4 years, and I have to think there must be some good reasons behind
this. Both have been available for several OSes, even DOS.


http://www.pkware.com/products/free_eval.html

http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/


Jordan