From: Aaron Schweiger Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Long filenames and pkunzip Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 20:45:55 -0400 Organization: Brown University Lines: 30 Message-ID: <33C82543.5447CE3A@Brown.Edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.148.54.244 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 Precedence: bulk Jon Berry wrote: > More importantly, I've found that our pkunzip itself didn't unzip > djgpp with long filename support - it simply truncated filenames. The > > first time I got bitten was when I tried to include strstream.h > (now strstrea.h). I was surprised not to see this in the faq; does > pkunzip usually unzip files with long names correctly on Win95? I > used "pkunzip -d .zip." Perhaps I have an old version of the > command? > Jon Berry Presumably, you have pkunzip 2.04g - I believe this is the newest command line version of the pkzip software available. However, it was written for dos, hence there is little long file name support. (Personally, I am surprised it does not choke all together.) Shareware.com lists a pkunzip replacement, unzip.exe, which is fully compatible (I think) with pkunzip 2.04g, but supports long file names and works at the command prompt. Of course, there are plenty of windows unzippers with long filename support, but I like the old command line.... The unzip program is by Info-ZIP. The authors can be contacted at: zip-bugs AT wkuvx1 DOT wku DOT edu. Portions of the program were written by S. H. Smith. (I got this off the help screen...) I hope this helps. Aaron Schweiger