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From: "Ajit George" <gajit AT kurianinc DOT com>
To: "Randall Schulz" <rschulz AT teknowledge DOT com>, <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: RE: B20 (NT) xargs creates multiple commands, not just one
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 19:00:46 -0500
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You don't even need to port it - the zip tools will build under MSDOS.  As
far as I know, they're not GNU tools though.  You can find the source, and
probably DOS binaries as well, at

http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/

Ajit

-----Original Message-----
From:	Randall Schulz [mailto:rschulz AT teknowledge DOT com]
Sent:	Thursday, June 24, 1999 6:25 PM
To:	Ajit George; cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject:	RE: B20 (NT) xargs creates multiple commands, not just one

Hi,

You should be aware that the JAR file format is identical to the ZIP file
format (also known as WinZIP after the popular program of that name for
Windows). You can always use the Gnu "zip," "unzip" and "zipinfo" programs
(*not* gzip and gunzip!) to get the full range of JAR/ZIP file
functionality.

The only thing you might need that zip/unzip cannot accomodate is the "jar"
command's generation of a manifest file.

Unfortunately, my user tools installation of Cygwin does not seem to
include the zip family of programs, but they are present on my RedHat Linux
5.1 x86 installation.

Presumably they could be ported to cygwin without undue exertion, right?

Randy Schulz
Teknowledge Corp.
Palo Alto, CA USA


At 02:53 PM 6/24/99 , Ajit George wrote:
This isn't a Cygwin issue -- I had this problem using jar under Linux as
well.  I don't remember exactly why, but I came to the conclusion that jar
creates a new archive each time it's invoked.  It doesn't add files to
existing archives.

Ajit
-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
[mailto:cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com]On Behalf Of BigFred
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 1999 2:51 PM
To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: B20 (NT) xargs creates multiple commands, not just one


I'm trying to use a
script using xargs
to create a JAR file
in java.....

xargs issues multiple
JAR commands apparently
due to the number of files
being passed to it.

each time JAR is executed
it clears out the previous
files already added.

i really need all the files
included in one JAR command.

is there anyway to increase whatever
buffer is being blown which causes
xargs to execute multiple commands?





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