Help unzipping old zip files

[pocaracas]

Have you tried and gotten errors?  It's been a long time but the thing I remember is that you have to start with the last disk and it will then prompt to insert the first one (it needs to read the directory info from the end of the zip file before it can start).  If you google "pkunzip command line" there are a number of sites with info on the options.

This may be what I'm looking for. I was trying to start with the first disk, this would make sense since the executable is on the last disk.

Still need to figure out the syntax to tell it where to unzip them to though.

manual?
https://pkware.cachefly.net/webdocs/manu...sguide.pdf

Code:

pkzipc -extract {zip filename} {files to extract - accepts wildcards like *} {destination directory}

[popeyespappy]

Code:

pkzipc -extract {zip filename} {files to extract - accepts wildcards like *} {destination directory}

Didn't need all that

Code:

A:\pkunzip.exe myfile.zip c:\mydir

worked once I started with the last disk in the drive.

Thanks everybody.

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Definitely don't work with the originals. Put all the files in one directory on a computer built this century.

I saved all the original files first, but had to run them off the original floppies to unzip them.

And I bought bought a computer built last century just for this little project...

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Definitely don't work with the originals. Put all the files in one directory on a computer built this century.

If the files all have the same name, that may be difficult.

They have to be numbered sequentially or the program won't know which goes first. But if there's a warning about "overwrite?" then obviously don't.

[popeyespappy]

If the files all have the same name, that may be difficult.

They have to be numbered sequentially or the program won't know which goes first. But if there's a warning about "overwrite?" then obviously don't.

All 6 files had the same name. The disks were numbered 1 though 6. I had to start with last disk. It then prompted me to insert the first disk then it started unzipping the files prompting me to insert each new disk. I assume the information about the individual files was on the last disk so the program knew what it was looking for before starting on the first one. It knew disk 6 was the last one anyway.

[ignoramus]

Was it early ascii porn?

[popeyespappy]

Was it early ascii porn?

CAD files.

[ignoramus]

Jesus Christ! Autocad? for Dos?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

They have to be numbered sequentially or the program won't know which goes first. But if there's a warning about "overwrite?" then obviously don't.

All 6 files had the same name. The disks were numbered 1 though 6. I had to start with last disk. It then prompted me to insert the first disk then it started unzipping the files prompting me to insert each new disk. I assume the information about the individual files was on the last disk so the program knew what it was looking for before starting on the first one. It knew disk 6 was the last one anyway.

Okay, that's older than I thought.

[onlinebiker]

Was it early ascii porn?

CAD files.

What was it??

Blueprints for a prototype of the wheel???

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The original drawing for the Internet.