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Re: AW: documentation archive
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 08:37:01PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Wednesday 20 December 2000 20:18, Vladimir G Ivanovic wrote:
>> EB> 2) Don't use Winzip to explore a cygwin archive file.
>>
>> I do this as well without problems, although it's not my preferred
>> way of exploring a gzipped tar gile. WinZip will ask if it should
>> decompress the file to a temporary directory and open it, which it
>> does admirably. Also, see below.
>
>This is an old discussion. WinZip has three problems which are very
>annoying.
>
>- tar archives are extracted with CR/LF conversion by default. This
> can be switched off fortunately by a config dialog.
>
>- It doesn't create empty directories from the archive.
>
>- Worst: It doesn't know of Cygwin symbolic links so they are extracted
> without setting the system bit.
>
>That's it and these are the reasons for suggesting not to use WinZip
>for unpacking. Especially newbies will not be able to figure what's
>gone wrong.
I wonder if we can add a bit to our version of tar to make it produce
files that are unextractable using winzip.
cgf
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