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Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:15:45 -0400
From: Charles Wilson <cygwin AT cwilson DOT fastmail DOT fm>
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Subject: Re: [1.7] unzip is OK, zip is not
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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.

Should be fixed (for cygwin-1.7) by recent zip-3.0-11 release. This
packaging bug did not occur on cygwin-1.5, so zip-3.0-1 has not been
updated.

--
Chuck


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