Re: extracting a zip archive via elisp (with no external executables)

[Saulius Menkevičius]

The problem is those files come within a .zip file too.

 Kind of a chicken and egg scenario here for automatic code..

-Saulius

> Am 09.07.2017 um 21:51 schrieb Alan Third <address@hidden>:
> 
> On Sun, Jul 09, 2017 at 03:26:10PM +0300, Saulius Menkevičius wrote:
>> There is arc-mode.el but it references existing binaries that should 
>> be available on the system (unzip, 7zip, etc.)
>> 
>> Those executables are (usually) present on UNIX systems on $PATH, 
>> but on Windows I am out of luck, apparently.
> 
> I’m not aware of any way to do this without using an external binary,
> but that’s not very hard. You can grab a Windows version of unzip from
> 
>    http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/unzip.htm
> 
> and either add it’s directory to the windows PATH or put the files
> into an existing location on the PATH, like maybe into the Emacs
> install’s bin directory.
> 
> -- 
> Alan Third