Re: QSHELL JAR Documentation

On 2/10/2016 3:28 PM, Justin Dearing wrote:

Not all zip file compressors are created equal, and I would expect (but
never tested) that jar does not create the smallest possible zip binaries.
It probably has the advantage of being the most likely thing to be
installed on an IBM i that can create zip files.

If you want to make the smallest zip files possible, 7zip is the way to go.
7zip can make regular zip files that windows and OSX have built in support
for opening as well as its own 7z format. There are AIX binaries here
http://www.perzl.org/aix/index.php?n=Main.P7zip

I have 7zip 4.65 running in PASE; probably from Scott Klement.
I also have gzip 1.2.4 and zip 2.3 from Info-Zip. The point being that
there are plenty of file compression utilities which can compile and run
in PASE, or be restored via RPM. Qshell too, probably.
That's a real tangent, and probably not what a vendor wants to deal
with, but for the archives, there we are.

The wiki shows several sources for a zip utility, including the
IBM-supplied QZIPUTIL service program:
http://wiki.midrange.com/index.php/Zip