Date   : Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:48:03 +0100
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Finding file information from .zips

A bit of tinkering to BBCUnZip to remove the code that extracts
data gives me ZipToInf:
 
See http://mdfs.net/Apps/Archivers/ZipTools/ZipToInf.exe
ZipToInf scans through a zip file and extracts Acorn metadata,
outputing that metadata to .inf files.
 
For example, ZipToInf BBCZip.zip creates:
UnZip.inf
Zip.inf
ZipCat.inf
ZipDiff.inf
ZipEx.inf
ZipInfo.inf
BBCZip.txt.inf
ManPages\U\1UnZip.inf
ManPages\Z\1Zip.inf
ManPages\Z\1ZipCat.inf
ManPages\Z\1ZipDiff.inf
ManPages\Z\1ZipEx.inf
ManPages\Z\1ZipInfo.inf
 
containing the Acorn metadata.
 
I may end up adding this option to BBCUnZip anyway, and tweeking it
to run fully on Windows. BBCUnZip already has an option (currently
-Z) to extract just the metadata on an Acorn platform to set file
metadata without extracting file contents.
 
-- 
J.G.Harston - jgh@...                - mdfs.net/User/JGH
BBC BASIC for Windows and Internationalisation
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