Unzip utility choice decision

Matthew Seaman matthew at FreeBSD.org
Fri Dec 25 16:37:56 UTC 2015


On 25/12/2015 16:30, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> However libarchive
> doesn't provide the ability to write to a zip archive, and there are
> some newer zip formats it can't cope with at all.

Correction: you can create a .zip archive with tar(1), but even so,
libarchive won't handle some of the newer variants of zip archives like
zip64.

	Cheers,

	Matthew


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