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From: David Gravereaux <davygrvy AT pobox DOT com>
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Subject: Re: What features make WinZip a bad idea?
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Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 08:31:00 GMT
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"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

>> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 23:44:28 -0500
>> From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
>> 
>> * May use long file names even when DJGPP won't (NT)
>> 
>> * May put each zip file in its own subdirectory instead of the
>>   directory you specify.
>> 
>> * May or may not preserve the directory structure of the zip file.
>
>One other ``feature'' is that WinZip converts text files to DOS CR-LF
>format.  That could wreak havoc on some semi-ASCII files.

I think that's a settable option with tar file exploding.

What irks me is that you can't delete a directory name and don't know it exists
because it doesn't display it.  It only displays files.  So you insert a/b.txt,
then decide to delete it and a/ is still in there hidden from view.
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