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Re: Package for creating/opening zip files
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Package for creating/opening zip files |
Date: |
Sun, 9 Feb 2003 07:46:40 +0200 (IST) |
On 8 Feb 2003, Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote:
> It is functionally equivalent and compatible at the file format level,
> but I'm not sure how drop-in it would be. The command-line arguments
> are different for pkzip/pkunzip versus pkzipc (the newer win32 console
> version; this comes with pkzip/pkunzip compatibility apps that just
> translate the command-line and call pkzipc to do the work, but that is
> not installed by default, for reasons I don't understand). I know
> info-zip's command-line structure is substantially different also from
> pkzip/pkunzip, but I'm not sure how similar info-zip's commandline may
> be to that of pkzipc.
Emacs supports pkzip and InfoZip's zip/unzip. Any program that is not
compatible to either of these will require changes in arc-mode.el to
support it (or a wrapper program to implement the compatibility layer
externally to Emacs).