Notes and Zip Files
FNO3 provides full integration with the file comments feature
of the PKZIP v2.04g standard.
Notes
- When ZIP files are created by FNO3 all Notes associated
with the files being zipped will be embedded as file comments into the ZIP
file.
- FNO3 uses special encoding rules to merge multiple Notes
fields into the single comments field available within a ZIP file
- When extracting ZIP contents FNO3 will use the decoding
rules to extract the contents for each Note field stored in the ZIP file
comment.
- Users receiving FNO3 created ZIP files with comments do not
require FNO3 in order to be able to view Notes against files within the ZIP
file. FNO3 is required to extract the Notes from the ZIP comments
field.
- .fno files are not copied into the ZIP file when files are
Zipped by FNO3 (see Using 3rd Party ZIP Compression Programs
below)
- When unzipping a ZIP file using FNO3 any comments will be exported to
the Notes 1 field unless FNO3 encoding has been used to indicate that
multiple Notes exist
Using 3rd Party ZIP Compression Programs
Embedded Notes in the comments field of a ZIP file will only be extracted
into FNO3 Notes cells when using FNO3 to extract the ZIP
file contents.
If using a 3rd party ZIP compression/extraction program to transfer files
between PC's then the fnotes3.fno hidden file should be included along with the
files in the folder being zipped. When extracting the files into the destination
folder FNO3 will detect the fnotes3.fno file and import the Notes
for those files.