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 Message 311 
 Alan Ianson to Benny Pedersen 
 zip and unzip 
 06 Aug 18 10:13:36 
 
  Re: zip and unzip
  By: Benny Pedersen to Alan Ianson on Mon Aug 06 2018 02:33 pm

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

 BP> zip, unzip

Yep, that works well for me.

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

 BP> its buggy then

Benny, step back from that precipice. You are going to get hurt!

Old software may or may not work as expected on a newer OS.. :)

 BP> ----- config begins -----

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

 BP> DefArcmailSize 1024
 BP> MinDiskFreeSpace 10

 BP> packNetMailOnScan off

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

 BP> ----- config ends -----

Odd, I don't see your zoo command!

 Ttyl :-),
         Al


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