Hello Alan!

05 Aug 2018 21:28, Alan Ianson wrote to All:

 AI> What do you folks use to compress and decompress zip files today?

zip, unzip

 AI> One of my links is having problems with my inbound mail archives being 
 AI> renamed to bad because pkunzip is running out of memory.

its buggy then

 AI> I suggested that infozip's zip and unzip might work better on his 32 
 AI> bit windows setup but I am not sure if that is true or not since I use 
 AI> linux. I use infozip's zip and unzip here.

   ----- zip begins -----
[I] app-arch/zip
     Available versions:  3.0-r3 {bzip2 crypt natspec unicode}
     Installed versions:  3.0-r3(12:19:07 05/26/18)(bzip2 crypt unicode
-natspec)
     Homepage:            http://www.info-zip.org/
     Description:         Info ZIP (encryption support)

   ----- zip ends -----

   ----- unzip begins -----
[I] app-arch/unzip
     Available versions:  6.0_p20 6.0_p21-r2 {bzip2 natspec unicode}
     Installed versions:  6.0_p21-r2(18:14:17 04/10/18)(bzip2 unicode -natspec)
     Homepage:            http://www.info-zip.org/
     Description:         unzipper for pkzip-compressed files

   ----- unzip ends -----

what else does fail ?

 AI> I am also not sure of the command line for compress.cfg for infozip so 
 AI> if you could post your command line and comments on the above it would be 
 AI> appreciated.

in my huskyconf

   ----- config begins -----

Pack lha lha -ad $a $f
Pack zip zip -9 -j -q $a $f

DefArcmailSize 1024
MinDiskFreeSpace 10

packNetMailOnScan off

Unpack "arc x $a $p'*.*' $f" 0 1a
Unpack "lha -eifw=$p $a $f" 2 2d6c68
Unpack "unrar e -y $a $p $f \* > /dev/null" 0 52617221
Unpack "unzip -joLqq $a -d $p $f" 0 504b0304

   ----- config ends -----

 Regards Benny

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