[comp.sys.3b1] DOS Pack and Unpack

sweet@skat.usc.edu (Rob Sweet) (03/15/91)

	Is there a PC or MS-DOS "unpack" program that will unpack
Unix files that have been "packed" on a Unix system?  For instance,
if I have a file called "text.z", can I download it to my PC and then
unpack it?  Conversely, is there a Unix version of PKZIP?

	As Norman Schwarzkopf would say: Tanks, in advance.

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ksc@cbnewsk.att.com (kenneth.s.cobler) (03/16/91)

[ Does pack/unpack exist for DOS ? ]

Yes, in a package called "MKS Toolkit" are the pack and unpack commands.
MKS toolkit is a package that makes your DOS computer emulate Unix.  You
still are running DOS, but, MKS toolkit gives you ksh (with command
history), login prompt, and many other unix commands.  I've found
no problems packing/unpacking and cpio/uncpio files between a Unix PC
and a DOS computer running MKS toolkit.  The package is worth it for all
the unix commands (rm, mv, cp, lf, etc.) even if you don't use the ksh
command interpretter.

Ken Cobler              708/979-4521
AT&T Bell Laboratories  attmail!ihlpm!ken
2000 N. Naperville Rd.
Naperville, IL  60566

ac999321@umbc5.umbc.edu (ac999321) (03/16/91)

In article <31078@usc> sweet@skat.usc.edu (Rob Sweet) writes:
>
>	Is there a PC or MS-DOS "unpack" program that will unpack
>Unix files that have been "packed" on a Unix system?  For instance,
>if I have a file called "text.z", can I download it to my PC and then
>unpack it?  Conversely, is there a Unix version of PKZIP?
>
I have a version of the ZOO archiver source for the 3b1; it compiled with
no problem at all, and works fine, on my 3b1; the binaries for DOS are
also public domain, so you can use it on both your IBM-PC and your AT&T
3b1.  If someone can tell me how upload the ZOO source to the OSU 
archives with the other 3b1 stuff, I'd be glad to.