Zip For Linux

Zip is a compression and file packaging utility for Unix, VMS, DOS, OS/2, Windows 9x/NT, Amiga, Atari, Macintosh, BeOS, SMS/QDOS, MVS, VM/CMS, and others.

Zip is analogous to a combination of the Unix commands tar(1) and compress(1) and is compatible with PKWARE's PKZIP and Nico Mak's WinZip. It's part of the Info-ZIP project.

Here are some key features of "Zip":

· creating zipfiles in a pipe or on a device · VMS and OS/2 extended file attributes · conversion between Unix, MS-DOS and Macintosh text file formats · the ability to run on most of your favorite operating systems.

What's New in This Release:

· fixed -R operation to match the supplied file patterns in all recursed subdirectories, like PKZIP 2.04 "-p -r" (or PKZIPC 4+ "-recurse") · handle cases where -x, -R, and -i patterns are mixed · new example C-Sharp code for using DLLs · added some directory-search speedups · fixed bug when encrypting large uncompressible files · fixed Windows NTFS time problem · fixed VMS logical name parse problem · added VMS DEBUG option · updated VMS help · fixed selection of files to delete by date · added -MM option where each input file pattern must match at least one file and all input files must be readable · added check for when Zip tries to exceed seek limit in output file · minor changes to compile with Visual C++ 2005 · added support for Unix FIFOs (named pipes) · other minor fixes