From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 5 20:57:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA18735 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 20:57:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA18729 for ; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 20:56:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id PAA20730; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 15:26:49 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id PAA08695; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 15:26:47 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981206152647.G603@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 15:26:47 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Rhyader , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: zip and mc (was: Can I run my useful linux utilities?) References: <3.0.5.32.19981205201738.007a83f0@surfari.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19981205201738.007a83f0@surfari.net>; from Rhyader on Sat, Dec 05, 1998 at 08:17:38PM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message