SCOUG OS/2 For You - September 1996

BBS Files of the Month

UNZ520X2.EXE

Every meeting someone asks, "What is UNZIP? Where do I get it? And, how do I use it?"

UNZIP is a free utility to uncompress .ZIP files that are found on our bulletin board, the Internet, and SCOUG's disk of the month. We try to include UNZIP on each month's disk to make it easier for you to work with the other files.

To use UNZIP, you need to know three pieces of information: (1) where UNZIP is located; (2) where your .ZIP file is located; and, (3) where you want the file(s) to be unzipped to.

First, at a command prompt, change to the directory where you want your files to end up. Then run the UNZIP command - for example:

E:\UTILITY\UNZIP C:\DOWNLOAD\BKILL20S.ZIP

Of course, E:\UTILITY and C:\DOWNLOAD should be replaced with the actual paths on your system. As UNZIP processes your .ZIP file, it will list each file as it is extracted.

CES BBS has many many useful files. Take a look at some of the recent additions:

Filename Description

BKILL20S.ZIP Bug Killer puts a GUI interface on the powerful McAfee OS/2 Anti-Virus Program

PERL502B.ZIP Perl 5.002 3 for OS/2; Perl is used throughout the Internet for writing CGI scripts and other Web related utilities

PMD23E.ZIP PM Diskcopy 2.3 (English version) is a disk copying utility and file manager for OS/2; copy/compare any diskettes, store/create disks as/from image files

RXTT21.EXE REXX tips 'n' tricks includes detailed examples as well as sample source code

ZIPME13.ZIP PM zip shell for INFO's zip and unzip, 32 bit and multithreaded, supports drag & drop

ZIP21X2.ZIP InfoZip 2.1 for OS/2 2.x and 3.x; includes executables and documentation, but does not include encryption features; this is the companion utility to UNZIP described above

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