DOS version of winzip?

[flatline]

Hello, A friend had some old games zipped on his hard drive and he gave me a couple to play, but all the files are zipped. I tried to unzip them but I keep getting errors. He said that i might need a DOS or older version of winZip to decompress these files.

The question is does this sound familiar to anyone? I thought that winZip would be back/compatable with early 90's de/re/compressions.

Thanks, steve

(The errors are corruption errors, on all the old files. Yet the new files unzip just fine)

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[tjaymadison]

You may have to search the freeware/shareware sites for PKZIP, the 'ancestor' of WinZip.


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[mjc]

Also a couple of the newer zip management programs like PowerArchiver (http://www.powerarchiver.com/) offer the option to repair zip archives.

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[This message has been edited by mjc (edited 06-05-2001).]

[flatline]

yeah, i guess the files are corrupted, pkzip, winzip, and winRar are coming up empty! dang, i really needed my Xcom fix!

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[This message has been edited by flatline (edited 06-05-2001).]

[mjc]

Checkout the PowerArchiver link...PA has a built in repair tool.

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[Ray Stainer]

Originally posted by flatline:
Hello, A friend had some old games zipped on his hard drive and he gave me a couple to play, but all the files are zipped. I tried to unzip them but I keep getting errors. He said that i might need a DOS or older version of winZip to decompress these files.

The question is does this sound familiar to anyone? I thought that winZip would be back/compatable with early 90's de/re/compressions.

Thanks, steve

(The errors are corruption errors, on all the old files. Yet the new files unzip just fine)



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