--- a/main/miscellaneous/inst/zip.m	Sat Oct 14 05:17:00 2006 +0000
+++ /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
@@ -1,72 +0,0 @@
-## Copyright (C) 2006   Sissou   <sylvain.pelissier@gmail.com>
-##
-## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
-## (at your option) any later version.
-##
-## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-## but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-## GNU General Public License for more details.
-##
-## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-## along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-## Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
-
-## -*- texinfo -*-
-## @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{entries} =} zip (@var{zipfile},@var{files})
-## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{entries} =} zip (@var{zipfile},@var{files},@var{rootdir})
-## Compress the list of files and/or directories specified in @var{files} 
-## into the archive @var{zipfiles} in the same directory. If @var{rootdir} 
-## is defined the @var{files} is located relative to @var{rootdir} rather 
-## than the current directory
-## @seealso{unzip,tar}
-## @end deftypefn
-
-function entries = zip(zipfile, files, rootdir)
-  if (nargin != 3)
-    rootdir = "./";
-  endif
-
-  if (nargin == 2 || nargin == 3)
-    rootdir = tilde_expand(rootdir);
-
-    if (ischar (files))
-      files = cellstr (files);
-    endif
-
-    if (ischar (zipfile) && iscellstr (files))
-
-      cmd = sprintf ("cd %s; zip -r %s %s", rootdir, [pwd(),"/",zipfile],
-		     sprintf (" %s", files{:}));
-
-      [status, output] = system (cmd);
-
-      if (status == 0)
-	if (nargout > 0)
-	  cmd = sprintf ("zipinfo -1 %s", zipfile);
-	  [status, entries] = system (cmd);
-	  if (status == 0)
-	    if (entries(end) == "\n")
-	      entries(end) = [];
-	    endif
-            entries = cellstr (split (entries, "\n"));
-	    entries = entries';
-	  else
-	    error("zip: zipinfo exit status = %d", status);
-	  endif
-	endif
-      else
-	error ("zip: zip exited with status = %d", status);
-      endif
-    
-    else
-      error ("zip: expecting all arguments to be character strings");
-    endif
-
-  else
-    print_usage();
-  endif
-
-endfunction