Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: Chris Faylor Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 16:42:46 -0400 To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: CygUtils Version of zip (and Symlinks) Message-ID: <20000523164246.A25409@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com References: <392ACD0A.D946A741@dothill.com> <200005231838.OAA23850@envy.delorie.com> <392ADC53.8CC580B6@dothill.com> <392AE763.C5F14D7C@ece.gatech.edu> <392AEC2D.6277F3@ece.gatech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <392AEC2D.6277F3@ece.gatech.edu>; from cwilson@ece.gatech.edu on Tue, May 23, 2000 at 04:38:05PM -0400 On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 04:38:05PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: >When you get right down to it, cygwin is NOT windows. It does everything >it can to make windows look like Unix, so that apps can run *as if they >were on unix* with little or no changes. So, by that logic, >cygwin-zip/unzip =should= be built as unix-ish apps, not windows-ish >ones. > >Comments? I agree (big surprise). This is what we did for the cygwin CD. IIRC, it was somewhat difficult, but not impossible, to build zip as a UNIX application for Windows. We (i.e. I) still screwed up the binmode/textmode stuff though. The version of zip on the CD only works correctly if the file being accessed lives on a directory mounted with binmode. Sigh. It sounds like the zip developers may have gone out of their way to make it even more difficult from the sound of things. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com