Zip 2.32 review

Zip is a compression and file packaging utility for Unix, VMS, DOS, OS/2, Windows 9x/NT, Amiga, Atari, Macintosh, BeOS, SMS/QDOS, MVS

License: BSD License File size: 0K Developer: The Info-ZIP Group

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Zip is a compression and file packaging utility for Unix, VMS, DOS, OS/2, Windows 9x/NT, Amiga, Atari, Macintosh, BeOS, SMS/QDOS, MVS, VM/CMS, and others.

Zip is analogous to a combination of the Unix commands tar(1) and compress(1) and is compatible with PKWARE's PKZIP and Nico Mak's WinZip. It's part of the Info-ZIP project.

Here are some key features of "Zip":
creating zipfiles in a pipe or on a device
VMS and OS/2 extended file attributes
conversion between Unix, MS-DOS and Macintosh text file formats
the ability to run on most of your favorite operating systems.

What's New in This Release:
fixed -R operation to match the supplied file patterns in all recursed subdirectories, like PKZIP 2.04 "-p -r" (or PKZIPC 4+ "-recurse")
handle cases where -x, -R, and -i patterns are mixed
new example C-Sharp code for using DLLs
added some directory-search speedups
fixed bug when encrypting large uncompressible files
fixed Windows NTFS time problem
fixed VMS logical name parse problem
added VMS DEBUG option
updated VMS help
fixed selection of files to delete by date
added -MM option where each input file pattern must match at least one file and all input files must be readable
added check for when Zip tries to exceed seek limit in output file
minor changes to compile with Visual C++ 2005
added support for Unix FIFOs (named pipes)
other minor fixes