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Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 14:00:10 -0400
From: "Charles Gauthier" <Charles DOT Gauthier AT iit DOT nrc DOT ca>
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To: Ian Zimmerman <itz AT lbin DOT com>, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: texinfo install
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I observed that my WinZip does not extract files of zero length. Some of these
files are used to trigger rules in make files, or serve simply as time stamps.
As a consequence, the build process does not work as it should. I never saw an
option to control that behavior.

Ian Zimmerman wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Hall <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
> To: Scott Smith <ssmith AT magnet DOT fsu DOT edu>; cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
> <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
> Date: Wednesday, May 12, 1999 6:58 AM
> Subject: Re: texinfo install
>
> >Good point and one which Mumit has made in the past.  In general, if you
> >expect to be able to build these source distributions from a tar ball,
> >DON'T USE WINZIP TO UNPACK THEM!  If you insist on doing so, you do so at
> >your own risk!  Its a painful lesson to learn when you learn it
> yourself!:-)
> >
>
> But WHY?  Sorry, I understand that I'm taking your time to ask a
> low-priority problem, but I can never be satisfied with answers of the type
> "just do this, it works".  What is it that WinZip screws up?  Is it the
> CR/LF conversion?  I turned that off.
> --
> Ian Zimmerman
> Lightbinders, Inc.
> 2325 3rd Street #324
> San Francisco, California 94107
>
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Charles-Antoine Gauthier
Research Officer
Software Engineering Group
Institute for Information Technology
National Research Council of Canada
Ottawa, ON, Canada
K1A 0R6



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