From: "John M. Aldrich" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: compiling Info-ZIP `unzip' on djgpp-v2? Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 20:00:19 -0800 Organization: Two pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt Lines: 24 Message-ID: <33092953.66D5@cs.com> References: <5e9d4i$cj9 AT samba DOT rahul DOT net> Reply-To: fighteer AT cs DOT com NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp204.cs.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp c DOT c DOT ciphbo AT 78 DOT killspam DOT us DOT com wrote: > > However, I just now compiled the `unzip' sources using djgpp-v2 in a > Windows 95 "DOS box" and the resulting unzip.exe _truncates_ long files > names that it finds in zip files. > > If the Info-ZIP FAQ is correct, how come the unzip.exe I just compiled > doesn't? Because the Info-ZIP distribution has a couple of bugs in it that break LFNs. :( Eli Zaretskii has made the necessary modifications to make the LFN support work, and would be glad to send you the required patches. I also have them, so you can ask me as well. Theoretically, the next release of Info-ZIP should have the corrected sources... -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | John M. Aldrich, aka Fighteer I | fighteer AT cs DOT com | | * Proud user of DJGPP! * | http://www.cs.com/fighteer | | ObJoke: If Bill Gates were a robber, not only would he | | shoot you, but he'd send you a bill for the bullets. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------