From: pjfarley3 AT escape DOT com (Peter J. Farley III) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: checkdir errors using unzip32.exe? Message-ID: <3b66b3c8.225884@news.escape.com> References: X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 Lines: 21 NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 08:33:50 CDT Organization: Giganews.Com - Premium News Outsourcing X-Trace: sv3-oFJ7o8luwBHy6Zrzv0jaMqWS0IZqk/kcodPBEDBLwark2NjGdhnobr2MHSbZBI1ddWKKcfeD4o2Y5Tx!/q6htHgIQ2edQwN3nykBqYRkZKcDUVz81NLA1acVLdgZmLOFYKqEjvCNKe16nA== X-Complaints-To: abuse AT GigaNews DOT Com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 13:38:33 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Eli Zaretskii wrote: >I've seen such messages from unzip on some rare occasions, but never had >time to debug that. It's quite clear that it's some bug in unzip, >because DJTAR has no problems to unpack the same archives. Ah! So I can use DJTAR to unpack them instead of UNZIP32! Thank you. >> I get a *lot* of these, and the pattern seems to be that unzip32 is >> failing to create multiple directories (like lib/gcc-lib/djgpp/2.953, > >It's possible that they fail in this case, but it's still a bug IMHO. >And the message is highly misleading, if that's indeed the problem. Agreed. If I ever get a spare moment, I'll look into that. Thanks once again for the help. ---------------------------------------------------- Peter J. Farley III (pjfarley AT nospam DOT dorsai DOT org OR pjfarley3 AT nospam DOT escape DOT com)