Unzip 5.52 vs 6.00 date differences...why?

[Dariusz Piatkowski]

So I think it's pretty simple issue I'm looking at. My utility to deal with ZIP files is: RPF ZipControl, v2.6.4, a pretty nifty GUI, but relies on the zip/unzip EXEs themselves for the crunching work.

For a long time I was using unzip 5.52, but as I'm attempting to clean-up my machine in the continuing drive towards the RPM/YUM assimilation (LOL, yeah, I imagine meeting Borg would be just as fun) I discovered that installing the currently available unzip package gets me unzip 6.00, with a side-effect though!!!

So the result of unizp 5.52 gives me good, actual DATES in the ZIP archive, the 6.00 on the other hand gives me all 2020 dates, ugh???

I suspect something has chagned, is it in the unzip itself? Is there a CLI option I need to account for? Any ideas?

[Andreas Schnellbacher]

Dariusz, you posted screenshots from an outdated an now unsupported unpack tool.

Wouldn't it be possible to post the output of the command line tools, be it unzip 6.00 or unzip 5.52 instead?

If you're looking for a recent and supported GUI tool, then use Zippy.

[Pete]

Hi Dariusz

Thought I'd have a look at this problem.

I opened a command line window in M:\usr\bin and ran

    unzip -l G:\nif\R119567.zip

This resulted in the following being displayed

  Length     EAs   ACLs     Date    Time    Name
---------    ---   ----  ---------- -----   ----
     2085      0      0  10-02-2006 23:45   1707FP.inf
     7916      0      0  10-02-2006 23:45   1707fp.cat
     2964      0      0  10-02-2006 23:41   1707FP.icm
      987      0      0  10-03-2006 14:38   Readme.txt
---------  -----  -----                     -------
    13952      0      0                     4 files


I then set Zip Control to use the unzip v6.00 installed in M:\usr\bin\unzip.exe and opened the same zip file.
Result: all file dates have the year changed from 2006 to 2020.

As that does not happen when running the command line I suspect Zip Control may have problems with interpreting the date data returned by unzip v6.00

I guess Andreas is right and it is time to retire my favourite zip file GUI in favour of the Archive Tool included with ArcaOS - aka zippy.


Regards

Pete

[xynixme]

the currently available unzip package gets me unzip 6.00, with a side-effect though!!!

</silence>The number of side-effects of all Zip3/Unzip6 OS/2 distributions, not managed by a digital package manager, exceeds one. I don't need large file support yet, so I've downgraded Zip/Unzip too, IIRC by using zip232unzip552ecs12.zip.<silence>

[ak120]

Dariusz, you posted screenshots from an outdated an now unsupported unpack tool.

It's still supported, simply fill the form here:
http://www.rpfsoftware.com/supportform.shtml

If you're looking for a recent and supported GUI tool, then use Zippy.

Rosyjska wysoka technologia - prawdopodobnie zły żart

[Dariusz Piatkowski]

Hi Andreas,

Dariusz, you posted screenshots from an outdated an now unsupported unpack tool.

Wouldn't it be possible to post the output of the command line tools, be it unzip 6.00 or unzip 5.52 instead?

If you're looking for a recent and supported GUI tool, then use Zippy.

The GUI tool I am using, while rather ancient in terms of build release date, is still extremly functional and at least for me when compared to the other options is some ways ahead of them.

For now, I just went back to 5.52 unzip release.

[Dariusz Piatkowski]

Hi Andreas!

If you're looking for a recent and supported GUI tool, then use Zippy.

Rosyjska wysoka technologia - prawdopodobnie zły żart

Nie wiadomo co jeszcze tam jest schowane w tym Zippy "gift" eh? LOL

[Olafur Gunnlaugsson]

LSZipWiz is a regularly updated alternative: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/incoming/lszipwiz-0.99.zip

[Dariusz Piatkowski]

Olafur,

LSZipWiz is a regularly updated alternative: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/incoming/lszipwiz-0.99.zip

Good point...I did install this app, checked it out, was going to make some suggestions to the author on how to enhance it...for starters, I wish that the application window and it's content frames were scalable...so that if you expand the main window the child windows expand as well. For eample, the contents of a large ZIP file would then be easily viewable.

[Olafur Gunnlaugsson]

Olafur,

LSZipWiz is a regularly updated alternative: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/incoming/lszipwiz-0.99.zip

Good point...I did install this app, checked it out, was going to make some suggestions to the author on how to enhance it...for starters, I wish that the application window and it's content frames were scalable...so that if you expand the main window the child windows expand as well. For eample, the contents of a large ZIP file would then be easily viewable.

You should send him an e-mail, I had an exchange with him over a bug a few weeks ago, very friendly contact.

[Herwig Bauernfeind]

I discovered that installing the currently available unzip package gets me unzip 6.00, with a side-effect though!!!

By "currently available" you think of the current rpm/yum package?

We fixed a wildcard problem there several months ago. In case there are still issues with the current one, drop us a ticket, and we will look into it.

Best regards,
Herwig Bauernfeind
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