Bob,

We could really use you as a contributor in http://oss4zos.org

Let me know if you would like an id so you can post....  (We don't have an
open registration process since wiki-spammers nailed us).

Here's a page that should be updated with your very nice Info-Zip work:
http://oss4zos.org/wiki/index.php?title=Info-ZIP

Kirk Wolf
Dovetailed Technologies

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Bob Woodside <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tuesday 23 June 2009, Bob Woodside wrote:
> >
> >     Ah, but that I was just playing around with the code to see what
> > would happen. Based on EG's comments, I've modified the function
> > local_to_display_string in fileio.c to play nicer with EBCDIC - at
> > least it seems nicer to me. That's the function that formats the
> > z->oname string, so you should be able to back out that little hack.
> >
> >     I've got a bunch of mods to the Unix version that I think are
> > fairly clean, and I'm hoping to create a good set of diffs later
> > today. I'll post then here and on the InfoZIP forum.
>
>     OK, I posted the latest version of the patch to the Info-ZIP forum.
> You can grab it from this thread:
>
>    http://www.info-zip.org/board/board.pl?m-1244753050/
>
>    (I decided that continuing to post patches here also is overkill.)
>
>
> >     I'd like to get some feedback from the developers who are
> > familiar with the code, because there are still areas I'm not too
> > sure about when it comes to large file support - like the encryption
> > code, which never even uses the 64-bit functions (???).
>
>     My bad  --  it's the crypt.c in *unzip* that uses the 32-bit fseek.
> zip is ok, as sms pointed out. Looking at too many pieces of code with
> too little sleep....
>
>
> >     But, for the basic zip functions - adding, updating, deleting -
> > under z/OS USS, it should be OK.
>
>     So feel free to give the Unix version a try. I'll start on the
> cmsmvs version soon, I hope.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Bob
>
>

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