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- Please send questions, comments, bug reports, accolades, and ridicule
- about Info-Zip's zip and unzip programs to the internet address:
-
- zip-bugs@cs.ucla.edu
-
- The authors and many contributors to these programs can be found in
- the information files that come with the source for these programs.
-
- Zip and unzip fit in the Utilities/Services category since they are
- compression and decompression utilities much like compress and
- uncompress, but with much better compression as well as cross-
- platform compatibility.
-
- They also fit in the Computer Science and Programming categories
- since they come in source and illustrate state-of-the-art compression
- techniques.
-
- Zip (and unzip) can be used as a combination archiver/compressor
- (decompressor/dearchiver) or as a pure compressor (decompressor).
- For the latter, zip and unzip can be used as filters wherever the
- Unix programs compress and zcat were used before as filters. As
- an archiver, zip provides cross-platform transport of file-systems
- for Unix, MSDOS, OS/2, VMS, Macintosh, Atari, Amiga, and others.
-
- Zip and unzip were developed on a wide variety of systems, including
- the NeXT under release 2.x. Please read the installation
- instructions in each set of source files for how to compile zip and
- unzip. In short, do a "make next" for both. There are
- compiled versions for NeXTstep 3.0 along with the source on this
- CD-ROM.
-
- Because the US State Department classifies encryption software along
- with munitions, it is illegal to export. However, it is not illegal
- to import! Therefore, if you would like to compile zip with
- encryption, please see the "Where" file in the zip distribution for
- where to get the encryption code from.
-
- Enjoy!
-
- Mark Adler