Archive-Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1996 00:32:03 CST Sender: owner-info-zip-announce@WKUVX1.WKU.EDU Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1996 00:15:21 CST From: Hunter Goatley Reply-To: Zip-Bugs@WKUVX1.WKU.EDU To: info-zip-announce@WKUVX1.WKU.EDU Message-ID: <0099EA8C.A460FD00.863@WKUVX1.WKU.EDU> Subject: INFO-ZIP-ANNOUNCE Administrivia: Bi-monthly Post Last modified: 6-JUL-1994 04:24 (Minor corrections here and there) Welcome to Info-ZIP-Announce@WKUVX1.WKU.EDU, an electronic mailing list established for announcements related to the portable Zip and UnZip utilities created by the Info-ZIP group. This is a routine posting you will see from time to time on Info-ZIP-Announce. The official home for the Info-ZIP utilities is ftp.uu.net in pub/archiving/zip. Anonymous ftp can be used to retrieve the utilities. Sources and many flavors of executables for the utilities can also be found on most of the large archive sites (SimTel, Garbo, etc.). 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If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions about Info-ZIP-Announce, please contact the list owner at the address below. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Hunter Goatley, Sr. OpenVMS Systems Programmer goathunter@LOKI.COM The LOKI Group, Inc. P.O. Box 9609 Bowling Green, KY 42102-9609 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Mon, 04 Mar 1996 09:26:10 CST Sender: owner-info-zip-announce@WKUVX1.WKU.EDU Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 09:08:24 -0600 (CST) From: Cave Newt Reply-To: Zip-Bugs@WKUVX1.WKU.EDU Message-ID: <199603041508.JAA13488@ellis.uchicago.edu> To: info-zip-announce@wkuvx1.wku.edu Subject: UnZip 5.20o beta uploaded [unz520o.msg, 3 Mar 96: this is a beta, do not distribute, etc.] ftp://quest.jpl.nasa.gov/beta/unz520o.zip ftp://quest.jpl.nasa.gov/beta/unz520o-no-wingui.zip Welcome to another UnZip beta. Unlike Onno's Zip betas, I don't think we're *quite* ready for a release, although it's darned close. I still need to deal with a couple of file-overwrite bugs (OS/2, Novell), and it would be nice to get Carl Forde's stamp of approval on the VM/CMS compilation. Aside from that and some documentation updates, we're there. In a moment of weakness I added a new feature, but it's one that shall remain undocumented and unsupported until 6.0. For Unix users only, you can now do "unzip -T \*.zip" to set the timestamps on every zipfile in the current directory. There was basically no reasonable way Zip could ever be made to do that, and since I use that feature a lot, I figured I'd toss it in. (It's ifdef'd, btw, and I don't want to see any patches pertaining to it until AFTER THE RELEASE. Seriously. Do as I say, not as I do. :-) ) From a programmer perspective, I finally got around to adding the MVS OS-made-by ID (dunno how I missed that last spring...), along with similar ones for W95's VFAT filesystem and for Chris's BeBox. (What is the proper name for that thing's OS, anyway? BeOS? BeBOS? BulBOS?) There were a number of fixes for various G bugs, but I don't know if they will take care of Kevin Fritz's Pyramid problem. It wasn't clear to me how the 5.20m version could have worked when 5.20n doesn't; this all has to do with the Info() and LoadFarString() macros. Kevin, let me know if anything changed. Here's the full list of changes: - Unix: experimental new zipfile-timestamp-setting option -T [CN] - Win32: recognize VC++ 4.10 [Steve S] - added MVS, VFAT and BeBox "OS" types [CN, Chris, Christian] - updates to ttyio.[ch], Where [Christian] - WinGUI: various updates [Mike W] - Unix: changed Sparc -> SPARC in version() [CN] - cut all output if -tqqq given on wildcard zipfiles; removed bogus blank line(s) for certain other output [CN] - inverted "unzip -v" code to print only NO_MORE if MORE *not* defined [CN] - changed "extern long timezone" to "extern time_t timezone" in fileio.c and unix.c [Wally Reiher] - Amiga, DOS, Win32, generic and documentation fixes [Paul, Christian] - "filename security" fix [Paul] - OS/2: makefile and globals fixes [Kai Uwe] - MVS, VM/CMS: fixed Trace() bugs [Christian] - WinGUI: G local/global memory fix [Mike W] Cheerios, Greg ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 16:42:10 CST Sender: owner-info-zip-announce@WKUVX1.WKU.EDU Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 16:41:34 -0600 (CST) From: Cave Newt Reply-To: Zip-Bugs@WKUVX1.WKU.EDU Message-ID: <199603132241.QAA14506@ellis.uchicago.edu> To: info-zip-announce@wkuvx1.wku.edu, zip-bugs@wkuvx1.wku.edu Subject: UnZip 5.20p beta uploaded [unz520p.msg, 13 Mar 96: this is a beta, do not distribute, etc.] ftp://quest.jpl.nasa.gov/beta/unz520p.zip ftp://quest.jpl.nasa.gov/beta/unz520p-no-wingui.zip [Christian: I uploaded this a few hours ago but forgot to send out the announcement. I'll apply your patches 4 and 7 to the next beta. Sorry...] OK, the timezone change in the last beta caused any number of problems, so I broke it the "right" way this time: if your system needs the timezone variable declared explicitly (i.e., not in time.h), you have to define DECLARE_TIMEZONE yourself. That should only affect older systems; please let me know if yours is one of them so we can ifdef it appropriately. Other than that, there were some filename-security fixes from Paul and some cleanup of the VM/CMS code from Christian (based on Carl Forde's listing of error messages), but the only interesting new feature is a patch to allow the use of long filenames on VFAT even under DOS, at least with the djgpp compiler. (I assume that's either W95 DOS shell or maybe plain DOS 7.x? I've lost track of the versions...) This feature is still experimental and needs some work to be fully integrated. Kevin: still no progress on your Pyramid compilation problem. I haven't had a chance to look at it in full, gory detail, and it still doesn't make sense at normal detail resolution. I'll probably ask for the pre- processor output of your compiler at the location of one of the errors. Here's the full list of changes: - Acorn: added the boys to the CONTRIBS file (oops!) [CN] - various updates (shared timezone code, ifdef parentheses, etc.) [Christian] - MS-DOS: experimental USE_VFAT option for djgpp compilation (can extract long filenames under plain DOS? or only under Win95 DOS shell?) [Kjetil Jorgensen, Christian] - removed obsolete OLD_EXDIR code [Christian] - more fnfilter() additions to extract.c for safety [Paul] - WinGUI: about-box e-mail update [Mike W] - new ebcdic.h code tables [Christian, Onno] - VM/CMS: fixes to remove compiler warnings/errors and add correct(?) filename mapping [Christian, Carl Forde] - Amiga: timezone fixes (removed invlocal() function) [Paul] - Acorn: added some required typecasts for compilation [Sergio] - MS-DOS: fixed overlong fUnZip command line in Watcom makefile [Javier Manero] - OS/2: work-around for DosSetPathInfo()/HPFS386/Warp Server bug [Kai Uwe] - Win32: globals/REENTRANT fixes; minor Watcom makefile fix [Paul] - only declare timezone variable if DECLARE_TIMEZONE defined [CN] Ta, Greg