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Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 15:39:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp AT familiehaase DOT de>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: unzip - known problem?
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On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:

> Hallo Gary,
>
> Am Donnerstag, 24. April 2003 um 16:31 schriebst du:
>
> > Let's say I have a .zip file, test.zip, that contains the following:
> >         test/cat.exe
> >         test/cat/mouse.exe
>
> > If I do "unzip test.zip" (in an otherwise empty directory), I get the
> > following error:
> >     checkdir error:  test/cat exists but is not directory
> >                      unable to process test/cat/.
>
> $ ls -R
> .:
> cat/  cat.exe*
>
> ./cat:
> mouse.exe*
>
> $ zip -r test .
>   adding: cat/ (stored 0%)
>   adding: cat/mouse.exe (stored 0%)
>   adding: cat.exe (stored 0%)
>
> $ unzip test.zip
> Archive:  test.zip
>    creating: cat/
>  extracting: cat/mouse.exe
>  extracting: cat.exe
>
> Works for me (tm).
> Gerrit

Gerrit,

It doesn't work if "cat.exe" precedes the "cat/" directory in the archive.
	Igor
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