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Re: Test: zip-2.31 and unzip-5.52


On a windy Wednesday, the 10th day of May, 2006, Bobby McNulty's computer deigned to emit the following stream of bytes:

> Igor Peshansky wrote:
> > On Wed, 10 May 2006, Dave Korn wrote:
> >
> > > On 10 May 2006 03:44, Charles Wilson wrote:
> > >
> > > > Notwithstanding the 'use posix instead of windows' ethos, we ARE,
> > > > undeniably, running on windows.  That's special.
> > >
> > >   What, "special" as in "winning-an-argument-on-the-internet" special?  ;)
> > >
> > > > Why does cygwin require patches, indeed...
> > > >
> > >   To patch up the holes where it burst open when a hippo sat on it?
> >
> > As long as we're afloat in the water and don't have to protect the
> > internals from outside pressure, many people won't mind the holes...
> > 	Igor
>
> You mean our float was attacked by another hippo?
> I was wondering where all these holes were coming from. :-)

Yes, those hippo floats are a nuisance.  They should be banned from all
the amusement parks, especially Disney...  Let them use real hippos.

OAU


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