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Date:	Fri, 23 Jun 2000 01:43:53 +0200
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From:	"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	Jeff Williams <jeffw AT darwin DOT sfbr DOT org>
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	Williams on Thu, 22 Jun 2000 14:44:13 -0500 (CDT))
Subject:	Re: `mkinstalldirs' in an 8.3 distro
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> Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 14:44:13 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Jeff Williams <jeffw AT darwin DOT sfbr DOT org>
> 
> Ok, suppose I do the same and include `mkinstal' in an (8.3-style)
> distro that I build?  If I then install it on a Unix box, I get the
> short name `mkinstal' and makefiles that look for `mkinstalldirs' will
> complain.
> 
> Is there a recommended means of handling this problem when building
> an 8.3-style distro that will be extracted on a Unix box?

I'm doing this all the time: most of the zip archives I prepare for
DJGPP ports are done on a plain DOS machine, but they work on Windows
and Unix as well.

The trick is simple: if you say "zip foo.zip ALongFileName.Extension",
Zip records the long file name in the archive if it can find a file
alongfil.ext.  So what I suggest to do is to prepare a file with the
list of all the files you want to archive, in their long form, and
then say "zip -9 foo.zip @files.lst".

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