Date:	Wed, 30 Apr 2003 15:02:37 +0300 (EET DST)
From:	Esa A E Peuha <peuha AT cc DOT helsinki DOT fi>
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Subject:	Re: djtar and slightly weirdly formatted ZIPs [PATCH]
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On Sat, 26 Apr 2003, Richard Dawe wrote:

> I noticed the other day that djtar cannot extract the flex 2.54 binary
> package from Simtel.NET - v2gnu/flx254b.zip. This is because
> it has a slightly weird header. Before the normal ZIP local header
> it has the header "PK00". I can't find out what this is for.

http://www.pkware.com/products/enterprise/white_papers/appnote.txt says
that is the temporary spanning marker signature (which means that it's
a normal zip file made by a program that can make slipt zips).

> Something else I noticed is that the output for djtar -t is not consistent
> between ZIP and tar'd formats. For ZIPs it just lists the filenames.
> For tar files it lists attributes, dates and file sizes too.

That's probably because I wrote epunzip.c as an exercise of least
effort. :-)  Dates and sizes are easy to add, but attributes may depend
on the system with which the zip file was created (see the specification
above), so currently there's no attribute support at all.  Of course the
easy cases (MS-DOS and Unix) could (and should) be supported, if you are
willing to write the code.

> OK to commit?

Looks fine to me.

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Esa Peuha
student of mathematics at the University of Helsinki
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