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- Updated: 10/5/92
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- Current & Known problems (or limitations) with UnZip 5.0 on Amiga.
- Status interpretation by John Bush, certainly open for debate.
- [GRR: debating mode on :-)]
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- UNZIP
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- o Crypt.c has not been fully ported and tested yet.
- Status: to be completed.
-
- o When restoring directories, the date stamp on the directory
- entry itself takes on the current date/time, not the date
- of the entry in the archive. Files within the directory
- are restored to their proper date/time.
- Status: To be investigated.
- [general unzip bug]
-
- o Partial restores are case sensitive. For example, to extract
- the contents of "Dir/SubDir/STuff", you must specify the entire
- path in the same case as what's in the archive. Ie,
- "UnZip -x bones.zip Dir/SubDir/STuff/*"
- Status: A "Feature". Just use "-v" ahead of time to view names.
- [must be this way: else no way to extract one particular file if
- exist several with names differing only in case]
-
- o Use of the "-c" and "-p" options have limited use, since true
- pipes are not implemented on Amiga. Application might be
- limited to online documentation display or redirection filters.
- Status: No mysterious force prevents you from using these options.
- [-c is primarily useful for printing to screen]
-
- o File time stamps are rounded up one second after restoring, the
- first time only. Subsequent zips and unzips of the same files
- (if unchanged) preserve the same time.
- Status: Not a problem. Caused by round-up.
- [actually rounded up inside zipfile: MS-DOS time/date limitation,
- now part of zipfile standard]
-
- o On restore, volume identifiers are renamed to the local disk
- by translating the ":" character to "_". Thus, for example,
- restoring an archive containing the full path "WORK:gabba/hey"
- results in the restoral of "WORK_gabba/hey", in the current
- directory.
- Status: To be investigated further. (Do we really want to
- restore Zip archives to fully qualified Volume:Path references?
- Sounds nice for backup/restore apps, but what about the novice?)
- [what is a "volume"? disk specifiers must be removed (in zip), but
- if a volume is more like a directory, then it could be stored as-is.
- preserving the colon is trivial (mapname), but what are you going to
- do with Unix colons?]
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- ZIPINFO
-
- o Unix file type always displays as "?" instead of "-,d,l,c,...".
- Status: to be fixed
- [fixed 11 Oct]
-
- o Zipinfo displays Unix permissions/attributes, even when OS made_by
- is Amiga.
- Status: To be fixed.
- [fixed Oct 5, 1992 -- Amiga attributes implemented]
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- FUNZIP
-
- o Will create an empty output file if the first entry in the ZIP file
- is a directory entry.
- Status: Not a problem. FunZip was not designed (yet) for generic
- extraction of nested elements.
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