Re: Creating directories with pkunzip, rar, et. al.

[Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty@sbcglobal.net>]

Bart Oldeman wrote:
> On 5/7/07, Joe Ripley <vitaminjoe@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 5/7/07, Joe Ripley <vitaminjoe@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Actually, I had some time to do some testing, and I found that it's
>> not that pkunzip is attempting to set the archive attribute.  When run
>> with the debug messages turned on, pkunzip tries to create the
>> directory with an attribute of 0x10 (i.e. a regular file) rather than
>> 0x20 (a directory).
> 
> 
> No, first of all creating a directory does not involve any attributes,
> and secondly
> 0x10=directory, and 0x20=archive.
> 

[and gives a source patch fix]

Ok, this explains a problem I found with the Dunfield installer
being unable to install under DOSEMU. In order to work around,
I booted a computer which actually does run MSDOS, and ran there,
then zipped up the resulting directories, put the ZIP file
on a floppy, and used unzip with Linux to do the transfer.

How soon will this be folded into the standard release?

Mike
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