Date   : Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:29:17 +0100 (BST)
From   : info@... (info@...)
Subject: Finding file information from .zips

> Just a very quick question. I "know" this has been answered before
> (sorry) but I am unable to find it to familiarise myself.
>
> Basically, if you grab a .zip containing a few files and then extract
> the .zip on Windows, although the files are present attempting to add
> them to either ADFS / DFS explorer or BBC explorer, there is no
> information (load and exec addresses etc)

If you're lucky the person putting it into the ZIP will have encoded the
load/exec addresses in the special data in the file catalogue (if you open
the ZIP in a hex editor or similar, look for the 'ARC' signature).

On an Acorn, !SparkFS does this, and my unzip tool will also restore the
attributes for you
  http://www.sprow.co.uk/bbc/software/unzip.bin

Sprow.