Re: CygUtils Version of zip (and Symlinks)

[Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>]

On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 04:38:05PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>When you get right down to it, cygwin is NOT windows. It does everything
>it can to make windows look like Unix, so that apps can run *as if they
>were on unix* with little or no changes. So, by that logic,
>cygwin-zip/unzip =should= be built as unix-ish apps, not windows-ish
>ones.
>
>Comments?

I agree (big surprise).  This is what we did for the cygwin CD.  IIRC,
it was somewhat difficult, but not impossible, to build zip as a UNIX
application for Windows.  We (i.e.  I) still screwed up the
binmode/textmode stuff though.  The version of zip on the CD only works
correctly if the file being accessed lives on a directory mounted with
binmode.  Sigh.

It sounds like the zip developers may have gone out of their way to make
it even more difficult from the sound of things.

cgf

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