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A free Macintosh Port of Info-ZIP's
Zip and UnZip
By Dirk Haase, d_haase@sitec.net
Home page: www.sitec.net/maczip
Mirror page:
www.haase-online.de/dirk/maczip
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Abstract:
---------
MacZip is a cross-platform compatible tool that includes
both Zip (for compression) and UnZip (for extraction).

Zip is a compression and file packaging utility for Unix,
VMS, MSDOS, OS/2, Windows 9x, Windows NT, Atari, Macintosh,
Amiga, Acorn RISC OS, and other systems.

UnZip unpacks zip archives. The Zip and UnZip programs can
process archives produced by PKZIP, and PKZIP and PKUNZIP
can work with archives produced by zip. Zip version 2.2 is
compatible with PKZIP 2.04.

If you are new to MacZip please read first the file
"ReadMe.1st".



License:
--------
  Copyright (c) 1990-2001 Info-ZIP.  All rights reserved.

  See the accompanying file LICENSE, version 2000-Apr-09 or later
  (the contents of which are also included in unzip.h) for terms of use.
  If, for some reason, all these files are missing, the Info-ZIP license
  also may be found at:  ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/license.html



Requirements
------------
MacZip requires at least System 7 and a Macintosh with a
minimum of a Motorola 68020 or PowerPC 601 processor. Other
configurations may work but it is not tested at all.

The application is distributed as a fat binary with both
regular 68K and native PowerPC versions included.



Installation
------------
Move the executable(s) somewhere--for example, drag it (or
them) to your Applications folder.  For easy access, make an
alias in the Launcher Control Panel or directly on your
desktop. The GUI is very simple. It was not my intention to
make a full-blown GUI, however I think it is comfortable
enough to use it as regular tool.

This port supports also Apple-event. So you can install it
in your WWW-Browser as a helper app.

For more Info about the contents of this package, take a
look into the "macos/Contents" (or :macos:Contents) file.
Some notes on how to rebuild the Macintosh applications can
be found in INSTALL.



Usage:
------

Basically there are four ways to start MacZip:

a) Drag'n Drop
b) using the Dialog box (Menu: File -> Zip/Unzip):

Please read the file "ReadMe.1st"
for the description of the items a and b.

c) Using the Command line (Menu: File->Command Line):
   The Zip & UnZip tools are command line tools. So the
   behavior is exactly the same like the Zip & UnZip tools on
   Unix or Windows/DOS. This means, if you want to zip some
   files, you have to write a command line like this: "zip
   [switches] path_to_zip_archive path_to_files_folders"

   - Go to "File", select "Command Line" and the
     "MacZip Entry box" Dialog Box appears.

   An example:

   a: your zip may be created at
           Macintosh HD:applications:archive.zip

   b: your files may be found at
           Macintosh HD:somewhere:my_folder_to_archive:*

   Note: At the end of the path there must be a filename or
         a wildcard !
   (see Footnotes: 1 wildcard, 2 Mac path names)

   So the command line should look like (one line!):

   zip "Macintosh HD:applications:archive.zip" "Macintosh HD:somewhere:my_folder_to_archive:*"

   - Click on "Enter" to start the task.

   Since you can not set a default folder you have to enter
   always a full qualified path names. Full-qualified path
   names are path names including the Volume name ! (see
   Footnote: 2 Mac path names)



d) Using Applescript: