Subj : Re: PKZIP for Win 7
To   : Dale Shipp
From : Ben Ritchey
Date : Fri Sep 18 2015 14:55:26

* An ongoing debate between Dale Shipp and All rages on ...

 DS> I am trying to migrate some of my BBS applications to my Win 7 pro,
 DS> 64-bit machine.  I can run them all in a Win XP in a virtual window,
 DS> but would like to get as far away from that as I can.
 DS> Right now, the thing that has me stumped is getting a replacement for
 DS> PKZIP and PKUNZIP that will run on 64 bit machine.  Of course, I would
 DS> prefer to find a freeware program.
 DS> I've found several programs that will unzip files made with PKZIP, but
 DS> none of them will zip into a PKZIP format -- as least as far as I can
 DS> see.
 DS> Does anyone have any suggestions?

I use 7-Zip, the command line version (7ZA.EXE), works great for me 
(Win7Pro-64bit). Just specify -tZIP for Zip files (and include .Zip extension 
on file names). Holler if ya need :)

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