Subj : QWK and OS/2
To   : Doctor Wade
From : Sean Dennis
Date : Tue Sep 07 2021 07:01 pm

Hello Doctor,

Tuesday September 07 2021 15:51, you wrote to All:

 DW> certain I have the correct version of PKZIP. I also don't understand
 DW> where that command line comes from that is called by the offline mail
 DW> reader menu. Any help would be appreciated!

Sounds like your COMPRESS.CFG isn't set up correctly.  Both Max and Squish use COMPRESS.CFG; for my system, both Max and Squish use D:\SQUISH\SQUISH.CFG.

Are you running the DOS or OS/2 version of Max?  If it's OS/2, you should be using Info-Zip's OS/2-native version of ZIP and UNZIP.

Here's my section for COMPRESS.CFG on my system for Max/2:

Archiver ZIP
        Extension       ZIP
        Ident           0,504b0304                      ; "PK^c^d"
OS2  Add           zip -9Dj %a %f        ; store in uppercase
DOS  Add           pkzip -a %a %f
OS2  Extract       unzip -qqnjC %a %f   ; case insensitive extract
DOS  Extract       pkunzip -n %a %f
OS2  View          unzip -v %a
DOS  View          pkzip -v %a
End Archiver

Also, real names are required in this echo.  Thanks.

This setup has worked for over 20 years for me. :)

-- Sean

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