#Unzip and IFF
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I downloaded the file UNZIP.LHA. I unpacked it and put it in my C
directory. When I type UNZIP file name I don't get anywhere. The
documentation is not helpful since I don't understand any of it.
Suggestions?
Also I have something called USPS.logo.IFF. Can you tell me if this is
something compatible with Amiga.
Hitting fairways and greens!
Joan,
When you say you don't get anywhere with unzip…exactly what do you
mean…you get no response from the program, you get garbage, etc?
Just a guess…but usps.logo.iff sounds like an iff picture of the U.S.
postal service logo. Could be something else too.
Don
Don,
I typed UNZIP Malon2.zip into my system. I get the message "This is an
"official beta" release from Info-Zip. See README.AMI for details.
I found my Usps.logo in my Multiview and found out it was a picture of
the U.S. postal service. So I'm ok with that.
Joan
Hitting fairways and greens! The season has started!
Joan,
Ok…so now you've got a beta version of Info-Zip that runs, did you
read the readme.ami file? It'd be a text file that should have been included
in the download.
Don
Don,
I can't seem to understand any of the readme.ami file information. All
I want to know is how to unzip a file called Malon2.zip.
Hitting fairways and greens! The season has started!
Joan,
I haven't used their unzip program, so can't give you specifics, but
the readme file should certainly give you an example command line to use it
doesn't it?
Don
Dear Don,
I went into the files but there doesn't seem to be any directions in
there that I can understand. Maybe you can translate a few of them for me
into normal language, not computer lingo.
1. unzip – list/test/extract from a ZIP archive file
2. unzip [ -cflptuvxz[ajnoqUV] ] file[.zip] [filespec …]
3. file[.zip] Path of the ZIP archive. The suffix ''.zip'' is applied if
the file specified does not exist. Note that self-extracting ZIP files are
supported; just specify the ''.exe'' suffix yourself.
4. An optional list of archive members to be processed. Expressions may
be used to match multiple members; be sure to quote expressions that
contain characters interpreted by the operating system.
5. Options
-c,-f,-l,-p,-t,-u,-v,-x,-z
6. Unzip will list, test, or extract from a zip archive, commonly found
on MSDOS systems. Archive member extraction is implied by the absence of
the -c,-p,-t,-l,-v or -z options
Hitting fairways and greens! The season has started!
Joan,
ok, then a typical command line would be:
unzip filename
where filename stands for the name of the zip file, less the .zip
extension. So, if you had a file you downloaded onto dh0:/downloads by the
name of Goodies.ZIP and wanted to extract it onto your ram disk, you'd do the
following:
cd ram:
unzip dh0:/downloads/goodies
And the files should be extracted to the ramdisk.
In the doc file, "file[.zip]" means that need to tell unzip what file,
and where the file is (current directory is assumed) and that you do not need
to type the .zip extension because it is assumed by the program to exist.
Thus in my above example, a file must exist named goodies.zip in your
dh0:downloads directory and unzip will then presume that filename when you tell
it dh0:/downloads/goodies (it will internally add and look for goodies.zip).
make sense?
Don
Don,
I followed your commands. I have a drawer called Unz51d3x in my C
directory which is supposed to be the Unzip program. It then has 10 files
inside of it. I had to take the file called Unzip which is one of these
10 files and put it in C–outside the Unz51d3x drawer to get the commands
you mentioned to work. But then when I did give the commands I got some
strange warning.
–warning extra 128 bytes at beginning or within zipfile(attempting
to process anyway)
Inflating:Effectiv.TXT bad CRC 5c07a9ad (should be fd8b9247)
Hitting fairways and greens! The season has started!
Joan,
Ok, now you've got unzip working. So now the question is why the
errors. One of two reasons…this zip is incompatible with the file you
downloaded or the file itself is corrupt (the zip file you downloaded).
I don't know which is the problem…I suspect the 2nd…that the file
is corrupt.
Don
I recieved the same strange message but the files I unzipped seemed normal
enough. Joe
Joan,
I don't know exactly what is happening. Did you type UNZIP filename.ZIP? or
just UNZIP? What error message did you get?
I think your USPS>logo.IFF is a picture that you'd need to view with a graphics
viewer. There are lots of those around. Quite a few are in the graphics
library of AmigaArts.
—Betty