I'm curious as to why there is an unzip applet but no zip applet? Presumably there is extant busybox code to deal with the zip file data structures, crc32 checksums, directory tree walking, and various compression routines (IIRC, gzip and zip 'deflate' are the same algorithm, and zip 'store' is simply memcpy()).
Adding a zip applet would seem trivial. Is there some technical reason why there is no zip applet? Or is it simply that nobody has wanted one bad enough to do it? [Since one was lacking, I wrote a simple-minded stand-alone 'zip' from scratch in about a day and half (including time spent researching and reverse engineering the file format). It only supports the 'store' compression method, always operates recursively, has no command line options (no update/delete capabilities), and always creates a new archive from scratch, so it's a bit limited. For deployment logistics reasons to dull to explain, adding a stand-alone 'zip' to my product's firmware build at this point in the life-cycle is a lot less work than adding one to busybox.] -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I joined scientology at at a garage sale!! gmail.com _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list busybox@busybox.net http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox