From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: A remark about unzip32
Organization: Pin Eight Software  http://pineight.8m.com/
Message-ID: <cuacms8u2g3gsiu6faug0ej4cnan3tdslu@4ax.com>
References: <8C684AC7AE1 AT HRZ1 DOT hrz DOT tu-darmstadt DOT de> <200007070837 DOT LAA00403 AT mailgw1 DOT netvision DOT net DOT il>
X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Lines: 27
X-Trace: /K49oEfV/2hsf3sZyzq2Qy/twcnL83yPT6eXo2saPHKTczbUNwOH7Vj7lxoxKa4dlXZ//ZMUnule!AyZXjHGM7muZZo0NrvUBIUjl5caxe2VtTr9EqhzFOdTN4QJI2diN0BFWp9+68J9/LUZA5SgZmMqg!mQU2
X-Complaints-To: abuse AT gte DOT net
X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers
X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 06:45:01 GMT
Distribution: world
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 06:45:01 GMT
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

On Fri, 07 Jul 2000 11:37:31 +0200, "Eli Zaretskii"
<eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

[snip unzip32 problem with converting LFNs]

>I think unzip in its DJGPP version should simply reuse the code from
>DJTAR.  (With minor changes, the same code is in the DJGPP ports of
>GNU Tar and cpio.)

That would make the whole unzip package GPL.  Info-ZIP wants to keep
its software under an MIT-like license.

>Or just truncate the name to 8+3 and forget all the other trickery.

In other words, act like pkunzip -d

>In any case, I suggest to send diffs to the UnZip maintainers.

Good idea.

-- 
Damian Yerrick
"I refuse to listen to those who refuse to listen to reason."
See the whole sig: http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~yerricde/sig.html

This is McAfee VirusScan. Add these two lines to your signature to
prevent the spread of signature viruses.  http://www.mcafee.com/