Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 11:20:13 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: "Fred T. Hamster" Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: two problems with cygwin's zip Message-ID: <20010626112013.A7369@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: "Fred T. Hamster" , cygwin@cygwin.com References: <3B38A4B7.6040803@gruntose.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <3B38A4B7.6040803@gruntose.com>; from fred@gruntose.com on Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 11:05:27AM -0400 On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 11:05:27AM -0400, Fred T. Hamster wrote: >i have checked the faq and the mailing list and don't find the totally >relevant answers, so here are the problems... > >1) zip saves absolute paths in the zipfile. for example, if i zip up >"l:\source\lib_src\library\basis"/* into a zip file, all of the files in >the archive start with "l:\". this leads, on unzipping, for zip to want >to write them back into "l:\" rather than unzipping into the current >directory. that is clearly a bad choice if my files on l:\ are somewhat >better versions than those in the zip. > the infozip distribution doesn't exhibit this behavior in the dos >port; instead, it chops off the absolutist part of the path and leaves >it as "source\lib_src\library\basis". > note that using the -j flag to junk the paths is not appropriate; my >zip files often contain 50-100 directories. i definitely don't want >them to all be dropped into the same directory on unzipping. Cygwin is a UNIX emulation environment. The cygwin zip program is a UNIX port. It probably doesn't know that \ is equivalent to /. We don't guarantee that every port of every utility that is distributed with cygwin will properly handle MS-DOS path syntax. I don't think that many package maintainers even care about this. So, use forward slashes in your filenames. That is one of the whole reasons for Cygwin -- the ability to use UNIX paths. If you don't want to use Cygwin's UNIX path name facilities then you should just be using a native zip port. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/