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- From: igor@hump.ihep.su (Igor Mandrichenko)
- Subject: Re: Bug in UnZip 5.0?
- Message-ID: <9209080930.AA24390@hump.ihep.su>
- Apparently-To: inews@ihep.su
- Posted-Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 13:30:14 +0400
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- Organization: IHEP,Protvino
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- References: <1992Sep3.152719.837@debet.nhh.no>
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 13:30:14 +0400
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- edb_morten@debet.nhh.no wrote:
- : Use Zip 1.9 to compress *one* file, in my example called "test". Use the
- : same name for the resulting zip-file.
- :
- : >zip test test
- :
- : This will generate "test.zip" which is a compressed version of "test".
- :
- : Now, try to list the contents of "test.zip" using UnZip 5.0.
- :
- : >unzip -v test
- :
- : My version of UnZip is unable to read the archive.
- :
-
- That's because "test" is NOT archive. It's the plain file "test"
- just archived into file "test.zip". Try "unzip -v test.zip" and you will see
- your file archived.
-
- : IS THIS A BUG?
-
- This is not a bug, unzip does just what you said to do.
-
- Igor Mandrichenko (igor@hump.ihep.su)
-