roelofs@AMELIA.NAS.NASA.GOV (Cave Newt) (05/20/91)
I have uploaded version 4.1 of the Info-ZIP project's unzip
utility for VAX/VMS to SIMTEL20:
pd1:<misc.vaxvms>
UNZIP41.ARC Generic unzip v4.1 for free public distribution
UNZIP41.DOC unzip v4.1 quick-reference ("man page")
UNZIP41.EXE Info-ZIP's free UNZIP v4.1 for VAX/VMS
UNZIP41.NOTES VMS-specific setup/notes/warnings for unzip v4.1
UNZIP41.EXE (VMS flavor) is a plain old executable for VMS, compiled
with VAX C 3.0 under VMS 5.2. Read unzip41.notes for instructions on
how to set up a symbol for proper usage, etc.
Of most interest to y'all will be the unzip sources (unzip41.arc)
and unzip ready-to-run executable (unzip41.exe, incredibly enough).
If you just snarf the latter, please also grab the two text files
unzip41.doc (a Unix-style man page) and unzip41.notes (VMS-specific
notes written by yours truly; much useless information therein, plus
some very important stuff thrown in for bonus irritation value).
The current version is much more compatible with various VMS file
types, but it still can't do variable-length records without help
(that's one of the important parts in unzip41.notes). Fixed-length
512 (ftp, Kermit "set file type fixed") and stream-LF (Zmodem, BSD
uudecode) are fine, however. If there are some Real (tm) VMS C pro-
grammers out there who'd like to work on this, feel free to join the
Info-ZIP project (e-mail to info-zip-request@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil)
--to the best of my knowledge, there's only one other VMSer involved,
and he's swamped. I surpassed "swamped" a long time ago.
Bug fixes and/or improvements and/or problem reports can be sent in to
info-zip@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil (but ask me before fooling with the time-
stamp code, because that's going to be my last big VMS contribution--
the current stuff is disappearing entirely).
Greg
roelofs@amelia.nas.nasa.gov