About Info-ZIP
Info-ZIP is a set of open source tools for creating, modifying and encrypting ZIP archives.
The zip and unzip programs from the Info-ZIP project are included with most Linux distributions, but current builds for Windows are quite hard to find. Therefore, I decided to compile all the console applications from this project and make them available on my website.
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Both ZIP files include the following applications:
Zip 3.0 – A compressor/archiver for creating and modifying ZIP files
ZipCloak 3.0 – For encrypting and decrypting
ZipNote 3.0 – For adding/deleting comments to ZIP files
ZipSplit 3.0 – For splitting ZIP files
UnZip 6.0 – For extracting and viewing files in ZIP archives
fUnZip 3.95 – For extracting in a pipe
UnZipSFX 6.0 – For creating self-extracting archives
Basic usage
Compression using the default compression algorithm (deflate) and default compression level (6):zip.exe archive.zip file1 file2 file3
Compression using the default compression algorithm (deflate) and the best compression level (9):zip.exe -9 archive.zip file1 file2 file3
Creating encrypted archive:zip.exe -e -P "password" archive.zip file1 file2 file3
Compression using the bzip2 compression algorithm:zip.exe -Z bzip2 archive.zip file1 file2 file3
Decompression:unzip.exe archive.zip
Decompression to the specified directory:unzip.exe archive.zip -d C:\some_dir
Decompression of the encrypted archive:unzip -P "password" archive.zip
Displaying information about files in the specified archive:unzip -Z archive.zip
Compilation info
IDE: Visual Studio 2013
Platform toolset: Visual Studio 2013 – Windows XP (v120_xp)
bzip2 support (bzip2-1.0.8 from https://sourceware.org/pub/bzip2/bzip2-1.0.8.tar.gz)
Static linking. No additional DLLs needed.
jp, 2020.08.09
Links
- Project page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/infozip/
- FAQ: http://infozip.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html
- License: http://infozip.sourceforge.net/license.html
- Sources:
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Info-ZIP