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- Enclosed is version 2.0 of UnZip by Samuel H. Smith. This software
- can unarchive any .ZIP file including those created by the recently
- released pkzip version 1.01. Personally, I prefer zoo for many
- reasons, but there will be zip archives out there and this can help.
-
- Unfortunately, the software as released is dependent on the TurboC
- runtime library, the 80x86 byte ordering, and compiler optimization
- assumptions. Not very good at all for easy porting to Unix, or for that
- matter, any other C compiler/machine combination. I have made some
- significant improvements to create UnZip 2.0.1 in order to increase
- portability, to run under Unix, and to compile on PC's under MicroSoft
- C. This software has NOT been extensively tested, but appears to
- work well so far.
-
- This version will be sent to the author just as soon as I can finally
- get throught to his BBS. I had sent him the same improvements for his
- last version (1.5) and explained the benefits of not having zillions of
- machine specific versions, but to no avail (there are Amiga and other
- hacks out there - mine should be generally more portable). Sam's
- licence permits this modified distribtion when the source is included,
- as it is here.
-
- My changes among other things, perform such tasks as AUTOMATICALLY
- adjusting operation for any byte-ordering (if HIGH_LOW is defined)
- and handling C compilers which do not pack structures on 2 byte
- boundaries (i.e. move 'longint's to the next 4 byte boundary - this
- is a common, and frequently unstoppable, optimization).
-
-
- George M. Sipe, Phone: (404) 447-4731
- 537 Lakeshore Drive, Berkeley Lake, GA 30136-3035
- UUCP: ...!{decvax,linus,rutgers}!gatech!rebel!george
-