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Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 20:57:08 +0300
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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In-reply-to: <3AEA8D4B.6A3DBBEA@phekda.freeserve.co.uk> (message from Richard
Dawe on Sat, 28 Apr 2001 10:28:43 +0100)
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Fileutils 4.0 beta 2
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> Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 10:28:43 +0100
> From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > No, you are probably right: I see that zip uses findfirst/findnext,
> > not readdir.  I guess Rich still uses an older version of zip (as do
> > I ;-).
> 
> It's much, much worse than you imagine. 8) I use The Most Evil Zip Program
> Known To DJGPP - WinZip - to prepare my packages.

Does that mean WinZip implemented our way of downcasing DOS file
names?  I'd be surprised if they did.  Perhaps WinZip was used to
unpack the original .tar.gz distribution, and that's when the file
names were downcased?

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