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Date:      Sun, 6 Dec 1998 15:26:47 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Rhyader <rhyader@surfari.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   zip and mc (was: Can I run my useful linux utilities?)
Message-ID:  <19981206152647.G603@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19981205201738.007a83f0@surfari.net>; from Rhyader on Sat, Dec 05, 1998 at 08:17:38PM -0800
References:  <3.0.5.32.19981205201738.007a83f0@surfari.net>

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On Saturday,  5 December 1998 at 20:17:38 -0800, Rhyader wrote:
>
> Question: Does BSD Unix have "zip" and "unzip" ?
>
> Red Hat Linux (they use that at my ISP, and I had Red Hat running briefly
> on a 386) has "zip" and "unzip", which work with and are compatible with
> the same .zip archives made by DOS pkzip and windows Winzip. So I can
> compress/uncompress archives in either operating system and the .zip files
> are interchangable. I hope BSD Unix has "zip".

Yes, FreeBSD includes zip in the Ports Collection.

> ALSO :
>
> Red Hat Linux had "Midnight Commander" - a linux version of the DOS
> "Norton Commander"... I can't imagine using DOS or linux without
> that!
>
> Could you run these in BSD Unix ?

Yes.

> I am told that BSD Unix has a linux emulator. Can the linux emulator be
> used to run these programs ?

You'd be better using the native versions, but yes, you could probably
run the Linux versions with the emulator.

Greg
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