From:	ad354 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (James Owens)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	DJGPP and InfoZIP volume label option
Date:	6 Nov 2000 19:09:01 GMT
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There's a bug in InfoZIP 5.41 and I can't seem to fix it with DJGPP. I
want to use the UNZIPSFX stub with the -$ option, which writes the volume
label to floppy. If I use the precompiled stub from InfoZIP, then when I type

[A:\]sfxtest -$

I get 'labelling a: myvollab' but the label is truncated to 8 characters.
(For my needs this is a problem.) If I compile the stub from source using
DJGPP, then from the same command I get 'skipping: myvollabel    hard disk
volume label' and the floppy is not labelled at all.  (The ZIP file is very
large, so placing it on A: first is not an option AFAIK).

In the InfoZIP source the truncation problem is known (the comment "GRR: 
have problem if filename is volume label??" appears). I'd hoped to fix it,
but why is the DJGPP compile behaving differently?

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                                     James Owens  ad354 AT Freenet DOT carleton DOT ca
                                     Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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