Download location (HTTP): http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/src/zip23.tar.gz Download location (FTP): ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/src/zip23.tar.gz Version used: 2.3 Package size: 839 KB Estimated Disk space required: 3.6 MB Estimated build time: 0.25 SBU |
The zip package contains ZIP utilities. These are useful for compressing files into ZIP archives.
Install zip by running the following commands:
cp unix/Makefile . && make prefix=/usr generic_gcc && make prefix=/usr install |
make prefix=/usr generic_gcc : This command overrides the prefix variable that is set to /usr/local in the Makefile and builds the executables for a linux system. The alternatives to 'generic_gcc' can be seen with a 'make list' command.
The zip package contains zip, zipcloak, zipnote and zipsplit.
zip compresses files into a ZIP archive.
zipcloak is disabled in this version of zip. It will display a message about how to support encryption by recompiling with zcrypt27.zip.
zipnote reads or writes comments stored in a zip file .
zipsplit is a utility to split zip files into smaller files.