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On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 02:46:57PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
>> I have been running Cygwin 1.7 for a while.
>> 
>> There is one annoying problem, when ZIP/UNZIP were installed, I have
>> an unzip.exe executable, but no zip.exe executable.  This doesn't
>> matter in *sh shells, but does matter when I'm using Cygwin in a "DOS"
>> window:
>> 
>>    c:\>which unzip
>>    unzip is an external : C:\Cygwin\bin\unzip.exe
>> 
>>    c:\>which zip
>>    zip is an unknown command
>> 
>> Is there a way to fix this (other than by making another copy of the file)?
>
>Known packaging error in zip-3.0-10.  I haven't had a chance to respin
>and push zip-3.0-11 yet.
>
>Just 'mv zip zip.exe' for now.

This is an example of the recently discussed:

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-07/msg00467.html
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-07/msg00460.html

And, it was specifically what I was thinking of when I wrote the last
paragraph of:

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-07/msg00465.html

cgf

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