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Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 10:23:14 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: zup and unzip ?? plans to include them in cygwin
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In-Reply-To: <3A33895D.5080700@nyvlem.mine.nu>; from ns6@nyvlem.mine.nu on Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 02:47:09PM +0100

On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 02:47:09PM +0100, Melvyn Sopacua wrote:
>Jari Aalto+list.cygwin wrote:
>
>>     Hi,
>> 
>>     Is there any plans to include zip and unzip into Cygwin 
>>     distribution? They are quite essential when downloading
>>     packages from net.
>
>If you want it like _now_, and not free, go to:
>http://www.winzip.com/wzcline.htm
>
>Download the command-line version, and install.
>Then:
>mkdir -p /usr/contrib/bin
>$ ln -s /cygdrive/f/Progs/WinZip/WZUNZIP.EXE /usr/contrib/bin/unzip
>$ ln -s /cygdrive/f/Progs/WinZip/WZZIP.EXE /usr/contrib/bin/zip
>$ export PATH=$PATH:/usr/contrib/bin
>cd /your_zip_path/
>$ unzip -vb DOM2-Core.zip
>WinZip(R) Command Line Support Add-On Version 1.0 (Build 3181)
>Copyright (c) WinZip Computing, Inc. 1991-2000 - All Rights Reserved

This is NOT a Cygwin version of zip/unzip.  I do not recommend using
this.

This has been mentioned many times on this mailing list.  You should
avoid using non-cygwin versions of tools which deal with files since
normal windows does not understand cygwin paths, symlinks, etc.

cgf

>Zip file: DOM2-Core.zip
>
>  Length   Size  Ratio    Date     Time   Name
>  ------   ----- -----    ----     ----   ----
>   6943    2355  67%  09/25/2000  13:51  Overview.html
>   6237    1462  77%  09/25/2000  13:51  expanded-toc.html
>  10246    2955  72%  09/25/2000  13:51  copyright-notice.html
>  21012    6205  71%  09/25/2000  13:51  introduction.html
>  193632   33243  83%  09/25/2000  13:51  core.html
>   5900    1590  74%  09/25/2000  13:51  changes.html
>   7511    2396  69%  09/25/2000  13:51  i18n.html
>  15202    2600  83%  09/25/2000  13:51  idl-definitions.html
>  14566    2622  82%  09/25/2000  13:52  java-binding.html
>  25263    3061  88%  09/25/2000  13:52  ecma-script-binding.html
>   4187    1860  56%  09/25/2000  13:52  acknowledgements.html
>  13577    4301  69%  09/25/2000  13:52  glossary.html
>   7245    2098  72%  09/25/2000  13:52  references.html
>  31284    4147  87%  09/25/2000  13:52  def-index.html
>   1268    1268   0%  07/24/2000  17:57  images/PR.gif
>    988     973   2%  07/24/2000  18:01  images/w3c_home.gif
>   3442    3263   6%  07/24/2000  17:58  images/table.gif
>   1344     400  71%  07/24/2000  17:57  spec.css
>   2119     977  54%  08/08/2000  12:44  W3C-PR.css
>   4405    4405   0%  09/25/2000  14:27  idl.zip
>  38568   38568   0%  09/25/2000  14:27  java-binding.zip
>  82865   82865   0%  09/25/2000  14:27  xml-source.zip
>------- -------  ---                     -------
>  497804  203614  60%                          22
>
>And there you have it.
>
>HTH,
>
>Melvyn.
>
>
>
>
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