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- RBBS & ZIP
- by Ken Goosens
- 24 May 1989
-
- RBBS 17.3 supports any file library and compression technique just as
- well as ARC, provided you have enough memory to support shelling.
-
- If you want to set up RBBS to support ZIP, do the following:
-
- (1) set the default extension to ZIP in config.
-
- (2) where you say in config to look for command.com, put in
- TZIP.BAT. Be sure to put PKUNZIP.EXE in the path as well.
- This will verify the integrity of uploads at the time of
- upload. The file TARC.BAT is provided as well, to verify
- that ARCed uploads are fine too. It assumes that you
- are using PKUNPAK.EXE.
-
- (3) RBBS will disallow an upload not having the default extension
- if a file exists with the same prefix and the default extension.
- This should eliminate duplicates. E.g. SORT232.ARC would be
- rejected because we have a ZIP version if ZIP is default and
- there is a file called SORT232.ZIP.
-
- (4) You cause uploads with extension <u-ext> to be converted to
- default extension <d-ext> by including where command.com a
- file named C<u-ext><d-ext>.BAT, which RBBS will shell to.
- The upload will be converted immediately at the time of
- upload and will be added to the directory under the converted
- name and file size.
-
- Included in the utilities is are 3 BAT files for converting:
-
- CARCZIP.BAT - convert ARC to ZIP. Put in drive/path of
- command.com specified in Config. Change the 4th parameter
- to the drive/path where your uploads go. Make sure
- PKUNPAK.EXE is in your search path.
-
- CPAKZIP.BAT - convert PAK to ZIP. Same directions as
- for CARCZIP.BAT. Make sure PAK.EXE is in your drive
- path.
-
- CALLZ.BAT - bat file other 2 invoke. Makes work directory
- using node name off of upload directory, extracts files
- into it, zip's all files from there into your upload
- directory, deletes old file, deletes work directory.
- Uses KDY.EXE which deletes files and directory without
- requiring confirmation. Resets errorlevel to 0 at
- end.
-
- The bat files take under 100K.
-
- The BAT files assume that you have a directory C:\RBBS that it
- can use as a work area. In CPAKZIP.BAT and CARCZIP.BAT you can
- edit this to whatever you wish.
-
- (5) RBBS will work properly with Smith's ZIPTV.EXE, which supports
- viewing not only a list of the files in a ZIP, but viewing text
- files inside the zip as well. The new VZIP.BAT distributed
- works with ZIPTV.
-