Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/10/18/08:00:32
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Rodeo Red wrote:
> I looked for unzip32 at the zip picker site and I don't beleive its there
> anywhere. I eventually found it at a simtel site.
SimTel site is the right place.
> It now sitting in my computer but I used WINZIP, which appears to
> work fine. ( I unzipped four djgpp zipfiles and only have one, not
> four info files) Maybe you are refering to an older version of
> winzip . If so, you should make that distainction.
WinZip has too many surprises for the uninitiated. Depending on the
WinZip options you turned on/off in your setup, you might or might not
see these surprises. Over the years, these surprises proved to mess
up quite a few installations by newbies.
It is true that WinZip *can* be used for a successful installation,
given enough vigilance and understanding of how things work, and
provided new users read the installation instructions and observe
those instructions to the letter. However, experience shows that many
people do NOT know enough about some WinZip features and are NOT
vigilant enough. We don't want to deny those people use of DJGPP, and
we prefer to invest our energy in helping people solve real problems
with DJGPP rather than explain how to install the package.
unzip32.exe was created to overcome these problems. It does the Right
Thing by default, on any platform (including Windows NT), and so we
hope that the amount of installation problems will become much lower
if people start using it.
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