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Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 15:24:42 -0400
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: [avail for test] zip-2.3-2 and unzip-5.50-1
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Okay, since there were no objections, I am going to mark these packages 
current.

--Chuck


Charles Wilson wrote:

> Any objections to marking these two packages as 'current'?  In my 
> testing, they seem to work fine, and the following work (which did not 
> work previously):
> 
> zip foo.zip C:/sys/*
> zip foo.zip C:\\AUTOEXEC.BAT C:\\AUTOEXEC.W40
> 
> However, this doesn't work:
> 
> zip foo.zip C:\\sys\\*
>         zip warning: name not matched: C:/sys/*
> 
> zip error: Nothing to do! (foo.zip)
> 
> However, it is useful to note that ls.exe fails in exactly the same way: 
> it can't match wildcard patterns that contain backslashes:
> 
> ls c:\\sys\\*
> ls: c:\sys\*: No such file or directory
> 
> but wildcard patterns with forward slashes work, and specific filenames 
> with backslashes work, too.  So, this (incomplete, but still better than 
> the old zip package) support for C: style pathnames seems to be an 
> improvement over status quo.  The failure mode is probably a bash or 
> cygwin error; if anyone would like to track it down that'd be great -- 
> but I don't think the "problem" is in zip's code...
> 
> --Chuck
> 
> 
> Charles Wilson wrote:
> 
>> I've uploaded these two packages to sourceware and marked them as 
>> 'test' releases.  Please try them out, and let me know if there are 
>> any problems.  (See below for installation instructions)
>>
>> CHANGES: zip-2.3-2
>>
>> o Update to new script-based packaging scheme.
>>
>> o Added the dospath patch from Michael Schaap --
>>   http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-06/msg01722.html
>>
>> Also, see
>>
>> "Two problems with Cygwin's ZIP":
>> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-06/msg01507.html
>>
>> "Cygwin: Open or Closed System? (was: two problems with cygwin's zip)":
>> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-06/msg01588.html
>>
>> "RE: Cygwin: Interoperability Is Important (was Cygwin: Open or Closed 
>> System, etc)":
>> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-06/msg01617.html
>>
>> Hopefully, this version addresses the problems zip had with DOS-style 
>> paths, while not negatively impacting "normal" (e.g. unixlike) 
>> behavior of cygwin's zip.
>>
>>
>> CHANGES: unzip-5.50-1
>>
>> o Update to version 5.50
>> o Use new script-driven build scheme.
>>
>> There is a small bug in unzip-5.50 which you may have heard about, but 
>> it only affects 16-bit ports.  We're 32bit.
>>
>> --Chuck
>>
>> INSTALLATION:
>>
>> INSTALLATION:
>>
>> To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link
>> on the http://cygwin.com/ web page.  This downloads setup.exe to your
>> system.  Then, run setup and update the zip and unzip packages.  Note 
>> that these 'test' versions will not automatically appear in the 
>> chooser window; you may have to click on the version number a few 
>> times before versions "2.3-2" and "5.50-1" show up.
>>
>> Note that we have recently stopped downloads from sources.redhat.com
>> (aka cygwin.com) due to bandwidth limitations.  This means that you
>> will need to find a mirror which has this update.
>>
>> In the US,
>> ftp://mirrors.rcn.net/mirrors/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/
>> is a reliable high bandwidth connection.
>>
>> In the UK,
>> http://programming.ccp14.ac.uk/ftp-mirror/programming/cygwin/pub/cygwin/
>> is usually up-to-date within 48 hours.
>>
>> If one of the above doesn't have the latest version of this package
>> then you can either wait for the site to be updated or find another
>> mirror.
>>
>> If you have questions or comments, please send them to the Cygwin
>> mailing list at: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com .  I would appreciate if you would
>> use this mailing list rather than emailing me directly.  This includes
>> ideas and comments about the setup utility or Cygwin in general.
>>
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