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File Compression Utilities • Pkzip is a great utility for compressing all those files you want to attach to an email message. Pkzip "compresses" the files to a smaller, more easily transferred size. • Pkunzip un-compresses the files created by Pkzip.
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PKZIP.EXE:
Creates .ZIP files PKUNZIP.EXE: UnZips the compressed .ZIP file At the bottom of this page are links to download a full copy of PKZIP, PKUNZIP, WINZIP and other tutorials on PKZIP. Our software package installs pkunzip.exe into the directory you used when you ran the setup program. This defaults to C:\EAGLE. If you plan on unzipping files there are a couple of things you can do to make your life easier. One solution is to copy or move the pkunzip.exe program into a directory that is listed in your path command in your autoexec.bat. If that sounds like too much you can probably bet that your DOS directory is in your path and you can just copy the file into C:\DOS. However, you'll have to know the steps involved in copying the file there. The other option is to use a compression program for Windows, like WINZIP. This way you can just point and click and let winzip do all the hard stuff. However, at the DOS level, here is what to do!To pull apart a previously created ZIP file, you use the PKUNZIP program. It's very simple.. give PKUNZIP the name of the .ZIP file to work with, and optionally where you would like the files inside to be extracted to. Working with our above example, if we wanted to pull apart the files inside TODAY.ZIP into the current directory, our command would be: ........PKUNZIP TODAY And that's it! If we wanted to put the contents of TODAY.ZIP into a different subdirectory, our command line would be:
PKUNZIP TODAY C:\WORK
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| --- the path of the directory to unzip the
| contents of the .ZIP file to
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---- the name of the .ZIP file to extract
That's it! If you type PKUNZIP/h a full screen or two will appear giving you full instructions. To create a ZIP file you simply tell PKZIP the name of the file you want to create that will contain the compressed files, followed by the name(s) of the files you wish to compress. Yes, PKZIP can compress a whole group of files into one ZIP, making it easy to compress an entire subdirectory into one, easily manageable ZIP file. For example, in a sub-directory we have four files, called: FILE1, FILE2, FILE3 and FILE4. We would like to compress these four files into one ZIP file we'll call TODAY. The command would be: PKZIP/A TODAY FILE1 FILE2 FILE3 FILE4
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| --- you can list one or more file names that
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---- the first thing to tell PKZIP is the name of the
final ZIP file (inside this TODAY.ZIP will be the
four FILES)
If you simply type PKZIP/h a complete list of options will appear on your screen. Want to download PKZIP and Winzip? | Download WinZip 16-bit | Download WinZip 32-bit | Here's a couple tutorials, the first one is best! | Using PKZIP | PKZIP for Macintosh | PKZIP Directions |
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