ZIP & UNZIP [1.9 (Aug 26th 1992)]

[Hein van den Heuvel · Accepted solution]

>> I have found a more up to date version of Zip on a VMS 8.3 system (zip 2.32 & unzip 5.52). I have tested Zipping and Unzipping the file with the issue and it works fine on this version.

Good, so no reason to dig deeper from that perspective.

>> I guess copying these across is not an option.

Sure it is. It may well work.
The images ou have found may well have originated on a much older OpenVMS version. I suppose you can study ANALYZE/IMAGE/INTER output, or just try it!

Here is an HP page with links to VMS images, and hints where to look for more (your Freeware CD!)
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/freeware/freeware.html

Hein

[Niall76]

Hi Hein,

Thank you very much. That version of Zip/Unzip works correctly.

Thank you very much.

Niall

[Hein van den Heuvel]

>> Thank you very much. That version of Zip/Unzip works correctly.


Well, I pulled out all the stops to help you with that.
I constructed a very cunning Google question (not!):

google: +openvms +zip +site:hp.com
[I'm feeling Lucky] Yeah!

:-)

Hein

[Hoff]

Oh Hein, this is ITRC. Please don't expose our secrets.

This is where we run Google. Where we look in Google Groups. And where we search ITRC for previous threads. Or where we search the OpenVMS Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ).

But we must never tell the questioners about that, lest they think we're not really some sort of guru; where our wizardry is built on using Google or DuckDuckGo or Blekko searches, and about knowing arcana such as the Google site: keyword to search a host, like site:h71000.www7.hp.com to search the VMS host.

We must have our secrets, and you've just gone and exposed that with your reply.

Whoops. Did I just post this expose of our secret guru tools? Sorry, my bad.

[Steven Schweda]

> Mar 28, 2011 16:31:53 GMT 1 pts

You're most welcome. To assist other, future
victims, could you please explain which part
of the material at:

ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/vms/
ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/vms/readme

failed to provide a complete solution to your
problem?

[Niall76]

lol, Steven.
I did try one or two of the ZIPs on that link, but the issue was my UNZIP appeared to be too old to successful unpackage the items.
The 1 point was more for your attitude in your response than the response itself.
Anyway, I was probably unduly kind, so you can have 3 more ;)
Niall

[Steven Schweda]

> [...] but the issue [problem?] was my UNZIP
> appeared to be too old to successful
> unpackage the items.

And what about the loose UnZip executables
("unz552xv*.exe") there?

> ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/vms/readme

Did you? The whole idea was to provide
everything necessary to bootstrap the current
released versions of Zip and UnZip, which I
thought that we had done. "Foolproof" is the
word which leaps to mind, but I hesitate to
approach the Forum's personal abuse
prohibition too closely.

> The 1 point was more for your attitude [...]

I find that many Forum points awards
(especially low ones) reveal more about the
question(er) than the answer(er), which is
why I hold the whole points scheme in very
low regard. Along with some Forum users, of
course. So don't fret about my feelings
being hurt this way.

And if you have any other problems with these
programs, even ones which could be solved by
reading the documentation, please don't
hesitate to ask. (Well, perhaps hesitate,
but don't necessarily stop.)

[Stephen Eickhoff_1]

Wow, 1992. When Lisa "left eye" Lopes and Kurt Cobain were big stars... and alive.

[Niall76]

Company motto:
if it aint broke dont fix it, if it is broke live with it
:)