According to Mithras: While burning my CPU.
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> I'm trying to unpack some 'zip' style archives with gunzip, but have been
> running into a deadend. Unless I'm mistaken, gzip was made as a free
> alternative to pkzip & an enhancement of compress. I found a source
> distribution in zip (rather than tar.gz) format & I can't open it. (!)
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> $ unzip inform615_source.zip
> unzip: inform615_source.zip: unknown suffix -- ignored
> $ mv inform615_source.zip inform615_source.gz
> $ unzip inform615_source.gz
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> unzip: inform615_source.gz: first entry not deflated or stored -- use
> unzip
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> What do I need to do? Is there an option I need to use, or have I got
> gzip improperly installed?
Well it seems to me (judgeing by what you have typed) that there seems to be
a misunderstanding here about which unzipping program to use.
You type "unzip inform615_source.zip" which is the correct program to use on
.zip files created by a zip program under M$dos normaly "pkzip", now the
"error" that is returned from the command "unzip inform615_source.zip" is
not from the program "unzip" but "gunzip".
Possably you have typed the command lines that you use off the top of your
head and you mean gunzip but you type unzip?.
A file created under the DOS enviroment with "pkzip" can be unpacked under
linux with the command "unzip", as an example;
/test/$ unzip jnos110f.zip
Archive: jnos110f.zip
inflating: ALLOC.C
inflating: ALLOCNEW.C
inflating: ALLOCOLD.C
inflating: ARCDUMP.C
As you see unzip has started to extract the files in MSDOS format, (ie upper
case) use 'unzip -L <filename>' to extracht the file to lower case.
The example for "gunzip" with the same file results in;
/test$ gunzip jnos110f.zip
gunzip: jnos110f.zip: unknown suffix -- ignored
Which must confirm that you are either typing above your example commands as
"unzip" when you are using "gunzip", or you have overwritten unzip with the
program gunzip.
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> thanks in advance,
>
> ben taylor
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Regards Richard.
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