Mac Zip Read Me

A free Macintosh Port of Info-ZIP's Zip and UnZip By Dirk Haase www.haase-online.de/dirk/maczip Please find my email address on my homepage. =========================================== Abstract: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- MacZip is a cross-platform compatible tool that includes both Zip (for compression) and UnZip (for extraction). Zip is a compression and file packaging utility for Unix, VMS, MSDOS, OS/2, Windows 9x, Windows NT, Atari, Macintosh, Amiga, Acorn RISC OS, and other systems. UnZip unpacks zip archives. The Zip and UnZip programs can process archives pro- duced by PKZIP, and PKZIP and PKUNZIP can work with archives produced by zip. Zip version 2.2 is compatible with PKZIP 2.04. If you are new to MacZip please read first the file "ReadMe.1st". License: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright (c) 1990-2000 Info-ZIP. All rights reserved. See the accompanying file LICENSE, version 2000-Mar-25 or later for terms of use. If, for some reason, both of these files are missing, the Info-ZIP license also may be found at: ftp://ftp.freesoftware.com/pub/infozip/license.html Requirements --------------------------------------------------------------------------- MacZip requires at least System 7 and a Macintosh with a minimum of a Motorola 68020 or PowerPC 601 processor. Other configurations may work but it is not tested at all. The application is distributed as a fat binary with both regular 68K and native PowerPC versions included. Installation --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Move the executable(s) somewhere--for example, drag it (or them) to your Applications folder. For easy access, make an alias in the Launcher Control Panel or directly on your desktop. The GUI is very simple. It was not my intention to make a full-blown GUI, however I think it is comfortable enough to use it as regular tool. This port supports also Apple-event. So you can install it in your WWW-Browser as a helper app. For more Info about the contents of this package, take a look into the "macos/Contents" (or :macos:Contents) file. Some notes on how to rebuild the Macintosh applications can be found in INSTALL. Usage: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Basically there are four ways to start MacZip: a) Drag'n Drop b) using the Dialog box (Menu: File -> Zip/Unzip): Please read the file "ReadMe.1st" for the description of the items a and b. c) Using the Command line (Menu: File->Command Line): The Zip & UnZip tools are command line tools. So the behavior is exactly the same like the Zip & UnZip tools on Unix or Windows/DOS. This means, if you want to zip some files, you have to write a command line like this: "zip [switches] path_to_zip_archive path_to_files_folders" - Go to "File" and select…