zip, zipnote, zipsplit

package and compress (archive) files

Contributed by

Lorne Wilkinson

Obtained from

News

Restrictions

Public Domain

Description

zip is a compression and file packaging utility for Unix, VMS, MSDOS, OS/2, Windows NT, Minix, Atari and Macintosh. It is analogous to a combination of tar and compress and is compatible with PKZIP (Phil Katz ZIP) for MSDOS systems.

Productivity

Portability for archives across the above systems.

Safety

Used it for a few months

Work Planned

None

Documentation

Manual pages

Verification

Can zip/unzip itself, and have unzipped files on MS-DOS that I haved zipped up on UNIX.