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- This is the README file for the 28 August 1994 public release of the
- Info-ZIP group's portable UnZip zipfile-extraction program (and related
- utilities).
-
- unzip512.zip portable UnZip, version 5.12, source code distribution
- unzip512.tar.Z same as above, but compress'd tar format
-
- __________________________________________________________________________
-
- ALSO NOTE: Info-ZIP's mailing addresses changed between UnZip 5.0p1 and
- 5.1 releases (and since Zip 2.0.1)! The old BITNET address doesn't even
- exist anymore. See below.
- __________________________________________________________________________
-
-
- GENERAL INFO
- ------------
- UnZip is an extraction utility for archives compressed in .zip format (also
- called "zipfiles"). Although highly compatible both with PKWARE's PKZIP
- and PKUNZIP utilities for MS-DOS and with Info-ZIP's own Zip program, our
- primary objectives have been portability and non-MSDOS functionality.
-
-
- CHANGES AND NEW FEATURES
- ------------------------
- The 5.12 release mainly fixes some bugs in 5.11, including a silly pointer
- error in unzipsfx. The only new features are fairly minor:
-
- - ZipInfo check for dead space inside archives (PKZIP/Netware bug)
- - SFX_EXDIR compilation option to allow -d <exdir> with UnZipSFX
- - "unzip -vqqqq" prints just the version number (e.g., "512")
-
- BUGS AND NEW PORTS: CONTACTING INFO-ZIP
- ----------------------------------------
- All bug reports and patches (context diffs only, please!) should go to
- zip-bugs@wkuvx1.wku.edu, which is the e-mail address for the Info-ZIP
- authors. "Dumb questions" which aren't adequately answered in the docu-
- mentation should also be directed here rather than to a global forum such
- as Usenet. (Kindly make certain that your questions *isn't* answered by
- the documentation, however--a great deal of effort has gone into making
- it clear and complete.) Suggestions for new features can be sent to
- info-zip@wkuvx1.wku.edu, a mailing list for the Info-ZIP beta testers,
- for discussion (the authors hang out here as well, of course), although
- we don't promise to act on all suggestions. If it is something which is
- manifestly useful, sending the required patches to zip-bugs directly (as
- per the instructions in the ZipPorts file) is likely to produce a quicker
- response than asking us to do it--the authors are always somewhat short
- on time. (Please do NOT send patches or encoded zipfiles to the info-zip
- address.)
-
-