How to use ZIP.exe on OS/2

[Ilya Zakharevich]

Recently I upgraded (some of OS/2 machines) to zip v3.0e beta (from
zip v2.1), and (as expected with upgrades? :-[ ) things do not work
anymore...

As debugging shows, the reason is that before the upgrade `zip -@'
would take quoted file names (as in "foo bar" with actual quotes
included), and the newer version has (the saner) semantic of "one
unquoted filename per line".

How should by scripts distinguish which behaviour is implemented now?
Currnetly I try to use just plain version from output of `zip -v', but
I'm afraid a future update may turn the behaviour back...

So: is there a better way to detect the implemented behaviour?

Thanks,
Ilya

[Peter Brown]

Hi Ilya

I saw some posts in the ecs ngs about zip3.0 and various versions
available being beta.

Paul Smedley responded and stated that zip3.0 available from his website
is built on GA code however he did not clarify which of the zip3
packages available on http://download.smedley.info/ that relates to.

I guess it is either http://download.smedley.info/zip30-os2-20090106.zip
or http://download.smedley.info/zip30g-os2.zip

Sorry, have not tried either myself so cannot advise further...

Regards

Pete