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At 09:43 AM 11/28/2000 +0200, you wrote:
>
>On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Anderson wrote:
>
>> - Unzip it all to djgpp dir (you can use winzip for that
>
>No, please do NOT use WinZip for that!
>
>The DJGPP documentation specifically warns _against_ using WinZip (see 
>Chapter 1 in the FAQ), because WinZip could cause grave problems due to 
>the fact that it doesn't always preserve the directory structure 
>recorded in the zip files, and also commits other atrocities against the 
>files it unpacks.

I've been using WinZip 7.0 for unzipping all of my DJGPP packages (before I
wrote my own unzip program). Everything goes fine for me. So far the only
problem I've had was with numtails, now this caused me some grief. And this
is not the fault of WinZip, but Windoze -- "A thirty-two bit extension and
graphical shell to a sixteen bit patch to an eight bit operating system
originally coded for a four bit microprocessor which was written by a
two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition" (The Jargon File
<http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/The-Jargon-Lexicon-framed.html>).

Hmmm. Then again, maybe I haven't encountered such problems just yet. So
could you please explain this further?

>Please use unzip32.exe that is available from the same place where you 
>download DJGPP, and save you grief.
>
>

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