Configuration - ZIP-Packer Back
Field Description
ZIP-packer ENTER the name and path of your ZIP-packer (pkzip.exe). You can use the >> button instead.
Use internal ZIP - packer
Use the ZIP packer built directly into Total Commander. After packing the ZIP file is automatically checked for errors. This can be aborted without the ZIP being deleted. The check can be disabled entirely by setting VerifyZip=0 in wincmd.ini, section [Packer].
Use ZIP-NT 2.0.1 (supports long names!)
The packer specified is Info-Zip for Windows NT 2.0.1 or later (ZIP-NT). Zip 2.0.1 must be patched in order to work with Total Commander. Otherwise files containing spaces in their names will not be packed! Total Commander does this patch automatically if it detects an unpatched version of info-zip 2.0.1. Btw, you can find Zip-NT as ftp://ftp.uu.net/pub/archiving/zip/ on the Internet (use Internet Explorer, Netscape or Total Commander to retrieve it with this address).
If you have a later version of ZIP-NT, this patch isn't necessary any more. In this case, you can answer 'yes' to the question if you want to use the packer anyway, but you should pack a test-archive with files containing spaces in their filenames.
ZIP-unpacker ENTER the name of your ZIP-Unpacker (pkunzip.exe), including the path.
Use internal unzipping
Total Commander has an internal unzip written by Info-ZIP, which allows unzipping without requiring PKunzip. To use it, select this check box. If this box is selected, the internal unzip is always used, except for encrypted files.
The following options are only for the internal ZIP packer:
Compression Here you can select the compression ratio (strength of the compression). The compression ratio goes from 1 (fastest compression) to 9 (best but slowest compression). 0 (no compression) is also possible. Because 9 is very slow and only a few permille better than normal compression (6), the latter is the default.
Directory for temporary files
Determines the directory where the internal ZIP packer puts its temporary files (only necessary when packing to removable disks):
default Total Commander uses the environment variable temp, which is defined in autoexec.bat. If there is no temp in your autoexec.bat you should define it! Add the line set temp=c:\temp to autoexec.bat and create the directory c:\temp!
other Here you can enter a different directory which will be used by Total Commander instead of the normal temp directory. The directory must exist!
Additional settings
Use 8.3 short filenames
For files with long filenames only the short alias name with 8 characters and 3 extension is written to the ZIP file. This allows to unpack the ZIP file also from plain DOS.
Set ZIP date to newest file date
After packing the date of the ZIP file is set to the date of the youngest file in the archive.
Open partial ZIP files
Allows to open only partially downloaded ZIP files, even during the download. This allows to have a look at the contained files before the download has finished. Useful for very big ZIP files.
Keep damaged files (bad CRC)
Normally files with a bad CRC checksum are automatically deleted when unpacking. If the checksum is wrong and the file contains important data, it may be reasonable to keep the probably damaged file anyway. In any case, you should check a file which is reported as damaged.