Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/11/12/12:00:22
In your letter dated Wed, 11 Nov 1998 12:15:14 +0200 (IST), you wrote:
> I tried several unzippers, and all of them didn't restore the
> read-only bit on directories (my version of Unzip is rather old). So
> I assumed most of the people won't get it restored, and documented
> that situation.
Later I unzipped with my unzipper again, and the bit was not restored
either. Hmmm, unzipper's ways seem to be undefined after all (this
makes me wonder how I did get the RO-bit set. I certainly did not set
them myself, and as I'm the only one using this machine... Lets call
it a bug in win98 dos-box, most likely (as usual) ;-)
> The directories are zipped with that bit because that's how they are
> on my system.
I thought so already.
> I guess I could have done it in a more consistent way, either by
> resetting the attribute before preparing the zip archives, or by
> explaining some more about this in the README.
Perhaps yes. But if the bulk of unzippers doesn't set the RO-bit,
there shouldn't be many people having this problem at all.
[snip PS about DJGPP-dvlj2.6 and latest version: dviljk-2.8]
> > Or should I just compile and try it myself (and upload if stable)?
> This is always a good idea. Please go ahead.
Closer inspection shows there is no need to do that. (your 2.6)==2.8
2.8 is the release using kpathsea 3.2 (instead of 3.0) + djgpp support
+ the change in tfm.c which you applied also.
bye now,
Robert
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