From:	"Tim Van Holder" <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
To:	<djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	RE: CVS question: Export option to preserve dates?
Date:	Thu, 7 Dec 2000 18:20:27 +0100
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> > $ unzip foo.zip
> > simply unzips the lot (resulting in a tree similar to cvs export, but
> > with timestamps intact).
> 
> Of course, djtar from v2.03 knows about zip archives.  So I suggest to 
> use it when unzipping, especially on plain DOS, where InfoZip has 
> misfeatures with their automatic renaming of long file names.
True. Of course, since we were talking in the context of CVS trees, this
is not an issue as CVS doesn't support plain DOS anyway (unless someone
released a seriously enhanced port of CVS behind my back :-) ).

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