References to 'MacOS' below generally refer to MacOS versions older than OS X. Though previous Mac versions had their own zip port, zip supports Mac OS X as part of the Unix port and most Unix featuresĪpply. Now include some support for the data descriptor format zip uses). In addition, streamed archives, entries encrypted with standard encryption, or split archives created with the pause option may not be compatible with PKZIPĪs data descriptors are used and PKZIP at the time of this writing does not support data descriptors (but recent changes in the PKWare published zip standard You must use a PKZIP 4.5Ĭompatible unzip, such as unzip 6.0 or later, to extract files using the Zip64 extensions. Option -fz- can be used to force zip to create PKZIP 2 compatible archives (as long as Zip64 extensions are not needed). Zip64 is also used for archives streamed from standard input as the size of such archives are not known in advance, but the zip automatically uses the Zip64 extensions when files larger than 4 GB are added to an archive, an archiveĬontaining Zip64 entries is updated (if the resulting archive still needs Zip64), the size of the archive will exceed 4 GB, or when the number of entries in See the EXAMPLES section at the bottom of this page for examples of some typical uses of zip. You must use PKUNZIP 2.04g or unzip 5.0p1 (or later versions) to extract them. Note that PKUNZIP 1.10 cannot extract files producedīy PKZIP 2.04 or zip 3.0. Now supports bzip2 compression if the bzip2 library is included when zip is compiled. zip version 3.0 is compatible with PKZIP 2.04 andĪlso supports the Zip64 extensions of PKZIP 4.5 which allow archives as well as files to exceed the previous 2 GB limit (4 GB in some cases). Streamed archives, but recent changes in the zip file standard may facilitate better compatibility). (supporting most PKZIP features up to PKZIP version 4.6), and PKZIP and PKUNZIP can work with archives produced by zip (with some exceptions, notably The zip and unzip(1L) programs can work with archives produced by PKZIP Is analogous to a combination of the Unix commands tar(1) and compress(1) and is compatible with PKZIP (Phil Katz's ZIP for MSDOS systems).Ī companion program ( unzip(1L)) unpacks zip archives. Zip is a compression and file packaging utility for Unix, VMS, MSDOS, OS/2, Windows 9x/NT/XP, Minix, Atari, Macintosh, Amiga, and Acorn RISC OS. Some oldĬommand lines that depend on command line inconsistencies may no longer work. Note: Command line processing in zip has been changed to support long options and handle all options and arguments more consistently.

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