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Posted by Douglas A. Taylor on September 26, 2005, 10:05 am
Please log in for more thread options On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 17:38:41 -0400, kinslerp wrote:
>> I recently bought a Zaurus SL-5500 on ebay. It seems like a nice
>> little machine, and I think it'll do what I want just fine. About the
>> only thing I'm missing at the moment is the Info-zip zip/unzip
>> utilities. (I want both zip and unzip.) The links I've seen for them
>> are all dead or broken. The Info-zip web site on sourceforge says it
>> should be trivial to compile on any unix-like platform, so I've gotta
>> think that somebody somewhere had got it working. Can anyone point me
>> in the right direction?
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> http://www.elsix.org/
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> You might also be interested in
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> http://openzaurus.org/
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> #Paul
Thanks for the pointers, Paul. I found unzip (but not zip -- the link to
sourceforge was broken) at the elsix site and got it to install. Seems to
work just fine. I still need zip, though. <Sigh>
I have heard a little about OpenZaurus. It sounds interesting, and it
does have the zip and unzip packages. That's probably what I want.
Are there any disadvantages to installing OpenZaurus? Will I be able to
go back to Sharp's ROM (which I have downloaded from their site) if I need
to? Will I still be able to play MP3's? How easy is it to compile
programs for OpenZaurus? Zip/unzip, a terminal, and a basic text editor
are what I currently need, but it would be nice to be able to play MIDI
files using Timidity, and it would also be pretty cool to be able to use
Mup (www.arkkra.com). (Mup evidently requires just a fairly basic cc to
compile.) And a Postscript viewer would be handy, too.
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