A free Macintosh Port of Info-ZIP's
Zip and UnZip
By Dirk Haase, [email protected]
Home page: www.sitec.net/maczip
Mirror page:
www.haase-online.de/dirk/maczip
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Abstract:
---------
MacZip is a cross-platform compatible tool that
includes both Zip (for compression) and UnZip (for extraction).

Zip is a compression and file packaging utility for Unix,
VMS, MSDOS, OS/2, Windows 9x, Windows NT, Atari, Macintosh,
Amiga, Acorn RISC OS, and other systems.

UnZip unpacks zip archives.
The Zip and UnZip programs can process archives pro-
duced by PKZIP, and PKZIP and PKUNZIP can work with
archives produced by zip. Zip version 2.2 is compatible
with PKZIP 2.04.


License:
--------
 Copyright (c) 1990-2000 Info-ZIP.  All rights reserved.

 See the accompanying file LICENSE, version 2000-Mar-25
 or later for terms of use.
 If, for some reason, both of these files are missing,
 the Info-ZIP license also may be found at:
 ftp://ftp.freesoftware.com/pub/infozip/license.html


Requirements
------------
MacZip requires at least System 7 and a Macintosh with a minimum of a
Motorola 68020 or PowerPC 601 processor. Other configurations may work
but it is not tested at all.

The application is distributed as a fat binary with both regular 68K
and native PowerPC versions included.



Installation
------------
Move the executable(s) somewhere--for example, drag it (or them) to your
Applications folder.  For easy access, make an alias in the Launcher Control
Panel or directly on your desktop.
The GUI is very simple. It was not my intention to make a full-blown GUI,
however I think it is comfortable enough to use it as regular tool.

This port supports also Apple-event. So you can install it in your
WWW-Browser as a helper app.

For more Info about the contents of this package, take a look into
the "macos/Contents" (or :macos:Contents) file. Some notes on how to
rebuild the Macintosh applications can be found in INSTALL.



Usage:
------

Basically there are four ways to start MacZip:

a) Drag'n Drop
  To extract an archive, drop an archive on MacZip.
  To compress files drop a file, folder or volume on MacZip.
  Note: You cannot drop more than one item at the same time.



b) using the Dialog box (Menu: File -> Zip/Unzip):
  * Compression (Zip):
  - Go to "File -> Zip"and the "Zip Options" Dialog Box appears.
  - Click on "Location of the compressed File"
  - The "Select an archive" dialog box appears
       a) select a existing zip archive
          -> Your files will be added to that zip archive.
       b) select a folder and name your new zip archive
          -> a new zip archive will be created with your files.
  - Select one or more check boxes if you want.
    see Zip.txt for more information.
  - Click on "File or Folder to Compress"
  - The "Select a File or Folder" dialog box appears
       a) select a file
          -> This file will be compressed.
       b) select a folder
          -> the contents of the folder will be compressed.
  - Click on "Start Zip" to start the task.

 * Extraction (Unzip):
  - Go to "File -> Unzip"and the "Unzip Options" Dialog Box appears.
  - Click on "Location of the compressed File"
  - The "Select an archive" dialog box appears
  - select a existing zip archive
  - Select one or more check boxes if you want.
    see Unzip.txt for more information.
  - Click on "Location of the extracted Files"
  - The "Select a Folder" dialog box appears
       a) select a file
          -> This file will be compressed.
       b) select a folder
          -> the contents of the archive will be extracted
             into this folder.
  - Click on "Start Unzip" to start the task.



c) Using the Command line (Menu: File->Command Line):
  The Zip & UnZip tools are command line tools. So the behavior is exactly
  the same like the Zip & UnZip tools on Unix or Windows/DOS. This means,
  if you want to zip some files, you have to write a command line like this:
  "zip [switches] path_to_zip_archive path_to_files_folders"

  - Go to "File" and select "Command Line" and the "MacZip Entry box"
    Dialog Box appears.

  An example:

  a: your zip may be created at
          Macintosh HD:applications:archive.zip

  b: your files may be found at
          Macintosh HD:somewhere:my_folder_to_archive:*

  Note: At the end of the path there must be a filename or a wild card !
  (see Footnote: 1 wild card, 2 Mac path names)

  So the command line should look like (one line!):

  zip "Macintosh HD:applications:archive.zip" "Macintosh HD:somewhere:my_folder_to_archive:*"

  - Click on "Enter" to start the task.

  Since you can not set a default folder you have to enter always a
  full qualified path names. Full-qualified path names are path names
  including the Volume name ! (see Footnote: 2 Mac path names)



d) Using Applescript:

There is only one additional event defined: "do_cmd". You can enter
every valid command line. The first word must be "zip" or "unzip" to
select the action (compress or extraction).

See sample Applescript:

       tell application "MacZip (PPC)"
           activate
           with timeout of 90000 seconds
               do_cmd "zip -rjjN Volume:archive \"My Volume:*\" "
           end timeout
       end tell

This script opens MacZip, brings it to the foreground on the Mac, starts the
zip action with the command line: zip -rjjN Volume:archive "My Volume:*" .




A short introduction is also available online:
http://www.sitec.net/maczip/How-To-Do/

It's possible to stop the run of Zip/Unzip with the well
known shortcut [Command] + [.].


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There are some Mac-specific switches available.
Zip Module:
      -df    [MacOS] Include only data-fork of files zipped into
             the  archive.   Good for exporting files to foreign
             operating-systems.  Resource-forks will be  ignored
             at all.

      -jj    [MacOS] record Fullpath (+ Volname).  The  complete
             path  including  volume  will be stored. By default
             the relative path will be stored.

      -S     [MSDOS, OS/2, WIN32 and ATARI] Include  system  and
             hidden files.
             [MacOS]  Includes finder invisible files, which are
             ignored otherwise.

Unzip Module:
      -E     [MacOS only] display contents of MacOS extra  field
             during restore operation.

      -i     [MacOS only] ignore filenames stored in MacOS extra
             fields.  Instead,  the  most  compatible   filename
             stored in the generic part of the entry's header is
             used.

      -J     [MacOS only] ignore MacOS extra fields.  All Macin-
             tosh  specific  info  is  skipped.  Data-fork   and
             resource-fork are restored as separate files.


Select [File]->[Get Help on Zip/Unzip] for a complete list
of switches.



Limitations / Problems:
-----------------------

   - Aliases are not supported. I tried, but I got broken aliases
     This port will silently ignore all aliases.
     It's on my to-do list for future releases.

   - Zip needs much memory to compress many files:
     You may need to increase the 'Preferred Size' in 'Get Info'.
     Values of 12 Megabytes or more are possible

   - Unzip needs about 500 Kbytes of memory to unzip no matter
     how many files were compressed and expanded.

   - and finally one big macintosh-related problem:
     This port has one weak point: It's based on path names.
     As you may be already know: Path names are not unique on a Mac !
     The main reason is that an attempt to implement support exact saving of
     the MacOS specific internal file structures would require a throughout
     rewrite of major parts of shared code, probably sacrifying compatibility
     with other systems.
     I have no solution at the moment. The port will just warn you if you try
     zip from / to a volume which has a duplicate name.
     MacZip has problems to find the archive or the files.
     My (Big) recommendation: Name all your volumes with a unique name and
     MacZip will run without any problem.


Known Bugs:

   - crypted files in a zip archive are sometimes corrupt:
     I get an error message: invalid compressed data to inflate.
     Appearance of this error is purely be chance:
     I did a small test: Unzipping an archive containing 3589 files
     56 files fails to unzip, so about 1.5%.
     Root cause is completely unclear to me :(

I strongly recommend to test your archive (e.g. unzip -t archive).





Zip Programs / Macintosh Extra-Data:
-----------------------------------------
A brief overview:
Currently, as far as I know, there are 6 Zip programs available
for the Macintosh platform.
These programs build (of course) different variants of Zip files:

   - Info-ZIP's first Port of Zip. Ported by Johnny Lee
     This Port is rather outdated and no longer supported (since 1992).
     68K only. Only minimal Mac-info is stored (Creator/Type,
     Finder attributes).
     Creator/Type: '????' / '????'
     Until year 1998, only UnZip 5.32 survived.

   - ZipIt by Tom Brown. This is Shareware and still supported I think.
     ZipIt has a nice GUI, but I found it can't handle large Zip files
     quite well. ZipIt compresses Macintosh files using the Mac Binary
     format. So, transferring files to other platforms is not so easy.
     Only minimal Mac-info is stored (Creator/Type, Finder attributes).
     Mac filenames are changed to a most compatible filename.
     Creator/Type: 'ZIP ' / 'ZIP '

   - PKZIP/mac v2.03/210d. This is Shareware.
     This Zip implementation for the Mac can be found on ASI's web site
     (http://www.asizip.com/products/products.htm).  The name of this
     program is misleading, it is NOT a product from PKWARE.  ASI's last
     release version is v2.03, and they also offer a newer beta version
     PKZIP/mac 210d. But even the Beta version is rather outdated (1995).
     Only minimal Mac-info is stored (Creator/Type, Finder attributes).
     The Zipfile format looks like incompatible to other platforms.
     (More details about the compatibility issue can be found in
     proginfo/3rdparty.bug!). Type: 'PKz1'
     Mac filenames are restored without any change.

       - Aladdin DropZip 1999, This is Shareware. Aladdin choosed
         the format of ZipIt. Therefore, it has the some drawbacks
         like ZipIt.
         Creator/Type: 'SITx' / 'ZIP '

       - SmartZip 1.0 1999 - by Marco Bambini Vampire Software. This is
         Shareware. SmartZip compresses Macintosh files using the Mac Binary.
         Therefore, it has the same drawbacks like ZipIt.
         Creator/Type: 'dZIP' / 'ZIP '


and finally:
   - Info-ZIP's latest Port of Zip. MacZip 1.0. Ported by me :-)
     It is supported (of course) and up to date. Full set of macintosh
     info is stored: Creator/Type, Finder attributes, Finder comments,
     MacOS 8.0 Folder settings, Icon/Folder Positions ...
     Mac filenames are restored without any change.
     Creator/Type: 'IZip' / 'ZIP '


Compatibility of my port; Extraction:
  - Archives from Info-ZIP's first port (by Johnny Lee) are still compatible.
  - Extraction of ZipIt archives is supported. This support is not
    complete: Filenames are correct but Directory names are sometimes mangled
    to a DOS compatible form. Segmented archives are not supported.
  - PKZiP/mac archive files are extracted without resource-forks
    and without any Finder info. I have no information about that zip format.

Compatibility of my port; Compression:
  - My port supports only the new Info-ZIP format
    (introduced with this port). Therefore archives created by MacZip 1.0
    (March 1999) must be extracted with this version or later releases
    of Info-ZIP's UnZip to restore the complete set of Macintosh attributes.

Note: This port is complete unrelated to the shareware ZipIt. Even more,
handling of special Macintosh attributes is incompatible with ZipIt.
This port (MacZip) may be used to extract archives created by ZipIt,
but make sure that you get the result as you expected.



Macintosh Files; File Forks:
----------------------------

All Macintosh files comprise two forks, known as the data fork and the
resource fork.  Unlike the bytes stored in the resource fork, the bytes in
the data fork do not have to exhibit any particular internal structure.
The application is responsible for interpreting the bytes in the data fork
in whatever manner is appropriate. The bytes in the resource fork usually
have a defined internal structure and contain data object like menus,
dialog boxes, icons and pictures.
Although all Macintosh files contain both a data fork and a resource fork,
one or both of these forks may be empty.

MacZip stores data-forks and resource-forks separately. The Zipfile format
does not allow to store two archive entries using exactly the same name.
My solution is to modify the Path name of the resource-fork. All resource-fork
names are prepended with a leading special directory named "XtraStuf.mac".
So, when extracting on a Mac, you should never see this directory
"XtraStuf.mac" on your *disk*.

On all foreign systems that support directories in filenames (e.g.: OS/2, Unix,
DOS/Windows, VMS) you will get a directory "XtraStuf.mac" when extracting
MacZip archives.
You can delete the complete directory "XtraStuf.mac" since Mac resources
do not make much sense outside the MacOS world.



Text encoding; Charsets of the Filenames:
-----------------------------------------

The following information is only important if you plan to transfer
archives across different platforms/language systems:

A typical Zip archive does not support different charsets. All filenames
stored in the public area (= accessible by foreign systems other
than MacOS) must be coded in the charset ISO-8859-1 (CP1252 in the Microsoft
Windows world) or CP850 (DOSLatin1). The latter should only be used by
Zip programs that mark the archive entries as "created under DOS".
Apart from Macs, the commonly used platforms either support ISO-8859-1
directly, or are compatible with it.
To achieve maximum compatibility, MacZip convert filenames from the
Mac OS Roman character set to ISO-8859-1 and vice versa.
But not every char of the charset MacRoman has their equivalent
in ISO-8859-1. To make the mapping in most cases possible, I chose
most similar chars or at least the MIDDLE DOT.

Mac OS Roman character set is used for at least the following Mac OS
localizations:
U.S., British, Canadian French, French, Swiss French,
German, Swiss German, Italian, Swiss Italian, Dutch,
Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Spanish, Catalan,
Portuguese, Brazilian, and the default International system.

In all Mac OS encodings, character codes 0x00-0x7F are identical to
ASCII, except that
 - in Mac OS Japanese, yen sign replaces reverse solidus
 - in Mac OS Arabic, Farsi, and Hebrew, some of the punctuation in this
   range is treated as having strong left-right directionality,
   although the corresponding Unicode characters have neutral
   directionality
So, for best compatibility, confine filenames to the standard
7-bit ASCII character set.

If you generate a filename list of your archive (unzip -l), you will
see the converted filenames. Your can also extract the archive with
the switch '-i' (= ignore mac filenames), and test your result.

This MacZip port uses its own filename stored in the archive.
At the moment, the filename will be not converted. However,
I'm planning to add support for Unicode.

Currently, the following Mac OS encodings are NOT supported:
Japanese, ChineseTrad, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Cyrillic,
Devanagari, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu
Kannada, Malayalam, Sinhalese, Burmese, Khmer, Thai, Laotian,
Georgian, Armenian, ChineseSimp, Tibetan, Mongolian, Ethiopic,
Vietnamese, ExtArabic and finally:
Symbol - this is the encoding for the font named "Symbol".
Dingbats - this is the encoding for the font named "Zapf Dingbats".
If you extract an archive coded with one of these charsets
you will probably get filenames with funny characters.

These problems apply only to filenames and NOT to the file
content.
of course: The content of the files will NEVER be converted !!



File-/Creator Type:
-------------

This port uses the creator type 'IZip' and it is registered at Apple
(since 08. March 1998). File types can not be registered any more.
This port uses 'ZIP ' for Zip archive files.
The creator 'IZip' type should be used for all future versions of
MacZip.



Hints for proper restoration of file-time stamps:
-------------------------------------------------

UnZip requires the host computer to have proper time zone information in
order to handle certain tasks correctly (see unzip.doc).  To set the
time zone on the Macintosh, go to the Map Control Panel and enter the
correct number of hours (and, in a few locales, minutes) offset from
Universal Time/Greenwich Mean Time.  For example, the US Pacific time zone
is -8 hours from UTC/GMT during standard (winter) time and -7 hours from
UTC/GMT during Daylight Savings Time.  The US Eastern time zone is -5 hours
during the winter and -4 hours during the summer.

Discussion of Daylight Savings Time
-----------------------------------
The setting in the Date & Time control panel for Daylight Savings time
is a universal setting. That is, it assumes everybody in the world is
observing Daylight Savings time when its check box is selected.

If other areas of the world are not observing Daylight Savings time when
the check box is selected in the Date & Time control panel, then the Map
control panel will be off by an hour for all areas that are not recognizing
Daylight Savings time.

Conversely, if you set the Map control panel to an area that does not observe
Daylight Savings time and deselect/uncheck the check box for Daylight Savings
time in the Date & Time control panel, then time in all areas celebrating
Daylight Savings time will be off by an hour in the Map control panel.

Example:
    In the case of Hawaiians, sometimes they are three hours
    behind Pacific Standard Time (PST) and sometimes two hours
    behind Pacific Daylight Time (PDT). The Map control panel
    can only calculate differences between time zones relative
    to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Hawaii will always show up as
    three hours past the Pacific time zone and five hours past
    the Central time zone.

    When Hawaiians are not observing Daylight Savings time, but
    the rest of the country is, there is no combination of
    settings in Map and Date & Time control panels which will
    enable you to display Hawaiian local time correctly AND
    concurrently display the correct time in other places that
    do observe Daylight Savings time.

    The knowledge about which countries observe Daylight Savings
    time and which do not is not built into the Map control
    panel, so it does not allow for such a complex calculation.

    This same situation also occurs in other parts of the world
    besides Hawaii. Phoenix, Arizona is an example of an area of
    the U.S. which also does not observe Daylight Savings time.

Conclusion:
MacZip only knows the GMT and DST offsets of the current time, not
for the time in question.


Projects & Packages:
--------------------

A Note to version numbers: Version of MacZip is currently 1.03 and
is based on the zip code version 2.3 and unzip code version 5.4.
See About Box for current version and compiler build date.

Because of the amount of sources I splitted this port into
several projects. See http://www.sitec.net/maczip for updates.

- core source parts:
   unzxxx.zip
   zipxxx.zip
     These archives contains the main parts of the port. You can build
     libraries and a standalone App with Metrowerks standard console SIOUX.
     They contain only sources, no executables.
     These archives are exact copies of the standard Info-ZIP source
     distributions; they were only repackaged under MacOS using MacZip,
     with one minor addition: For those files that are stored in BinHex'ed
     format in the Info-ZIP reference source archives, unpacked version
     that are ready for use have been added.

- additional source part:
   MacZipxxx.zip: contains all the GUI stuff and the project files to
     build the main-app.  Only sources of the GUI, no zip or unzip code.
     To build MacZip successfully you will need to also download the zip
     and unzip packages.

- executables:
   MacZipxxxnc.hqx: contains only executables and 'README.TXT',
                    This version is without en-/decryption support !
   MacZipxxxc.hqx:  contains only executables and 'README.TXT',
                    This version supports en-/decryption !

- encryption sources:
   zcryptxx.zip: To build crypt versions of MacZip.
   download from ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/infozip/ (and subdirectories)

- documentation:
   MacZipDocu.zip: contains some further docus about the algorithm,
                   limits, Info-ZIP's appnote and a How-to-do Webpage.


Credits:
--------

Macstuff.c and recurse.c: All the functions are from More Files.
More Files fixes many of the broken or underfunctional
parts of the file system. Thanks to Jim Luther.
(see morefiles.doc)







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Footnotes:

1. wild card:
   The '*' is a wild card and means 'all files'
   Just in case you don't know wild cards:
   '*' is a place holder for any character.
   e.g.:
   "this*" matches with "this_file" or  "this_textfile" but it
   doesn't match with "only_this_file" or  "first_this_textfile"
   "*this*" matches with "this_file" or  "this_textfile" AND
   matches with "only_this_file" or  "first_this_textfile"


2. Mac pathnames:
The following characteristics of Macintosh pathnames should be noted:

   A full pathname never begins with a colon, but must contain at
   least one colon.
   A partial pathname always begins with a colon separator except in
   the case where the file partial pathname is a simple file or
   directory name.
   Single trailing separator colons in full or partial pathnames are
   ignored except in the case of full pathnames to volumes.
   In full pathnames to volumes, the trailing separator colon is required.
   Consecutive separator colons can be used to ascend a level from a
   directory to its parent directory. Two consecutive separator colons
   will ascend one level, three consecutive separator colons will ascend
   two levels, and so on. Ascending can only occur from a directory;
   not a file.





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