pkzip for linux or compatible

cygnus-x1 · 08-20-2007, 04:52 PM

I have a few multi part archives made by pkzip. Unzip does not seem to support this format and whenever I try to find the shareware/freeware linux version of pkzip I am inundated with windows only versions.

Can someone help me either find an older version or source for pkzip or suggest another utility that would work? I am running slackware 11.0

thanks

Lenard · 08-20-2007, 06:34 PM

unrar: http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm
gzip: http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/

Take your pick.

cygnus-x1 · 08-20-2007, 08:25 PM

I maybe be blindly not seeing this but from what I remember gzip does not support the .zip format. I have always used unzip for .zip files especially those created on Windows. This multi-part archives were created by pkzip on a windows machine.

Can you explain to me how to do this then?

gilead · 08-20-2007, 08:45 PM

Neither gzip nor unzip natively handle the multi-part pkzip format. According to http://www.info-zip.org/FAQ.html#multivol, you can use the following to do it manually:

Code:

cat part1.zip part2.zip etc.zip > monster.zip
zip -F monster.zip

Then, just unzip the archive. I haven't tried this, so I hope it works, but...

cygnus-x1 · 08-20-2007, 09:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gilead

Neither gzip nor unzip natively handle the pkzip format. According to http://www.info-zip.org/FAQ.html#multivol, you can use the following to do it manually:

Code:

cat part1.zip part2.zip etc.zip > monster.zip
zip -F monster.zip

Then, just unzip the archive. I haven't tried this, so I hope it works, but...

Thanks .. .I will give it a try!