From:	pjfarley3 AT escape DOT com (Peter J. Farley III)
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Subject:	Re: checkdir errors using unzip32.exe?
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Date:	Tue, 31 Jul 2001 13:38:33 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
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>I've seen such messages from unzip on some rare occasions, but never had 
>time to debug that.  It's quite clear that it's some bug in unzip, 
>because DJTAR has no problems to unpack the same archives.

Ah!  So I can use DJTAR to unpack them instead of UNZIP32!  Thank you.

>> I get a *lot* of these, and the pattern seems to be that unzip32 is
>> failing to create multiple directories (like lib/gcc-lib/djgpp/2.953,
>
>It's possible that they fail in this case, but it's still a bug IMHO.
>And the message is highly misleading, if that's indeed the problem.

Agreed.  If I ever get a spare moment, I'll look into that.

Thanks once again for the help.

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