zip

zip

Module

zip

Module summary

Utility for reading and creating 'zip' archives.

Description

The zip module archives and extracts files to and from a zip archive. The zip format is specified by the "ZIP Appnote.txt" file available on PKWare's website www.pkware.com.

The zip module supports zip archive versions up to 6.1. However, password-protection and Zip64 are not supported.

By convention, the name of a zip file should end in ".zip". To abide to the convention, you'll need to add ".zip" yourself to the name.

Zip archives are created with the zip/2 or the zip/3 function. (They are also available as create, to resemble the erl_tar module.)

To extract files from a zi