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Re: Unzipping the ThinkPad Assistant



>
>PKzio and Winzip will test the archive witout problems, but, if I try to
>extract one or more of the files with comma in the name, Winzip hangs, and
>PKZip gives me:
>
That's very unusual.  As I noted below, it could be a limitation of the filesystem.

>PKUNZIP: (W10) Warning! can't create: 
thinkpad_701-00D,00F,2SU,2TU,5SU,5TU,7SU,7TU_standard_features.html
>
>I am using PKzip 2.04g and WinZip 6.1 and I am working on a FAT16 drive
>under NT.3.5.1.
>
Maybe it's also a limitiation of FAT?  Has anyone tried under NTFS?  What about UNIX/Linux?

>I can create a file with the same name with a DOS command, so I suspect this
>is most likely a problem with the version of PKZip I am using. 
>
>Tomorrow I can try to use the Info-Zip version of unzip,  and see if it
>behaves any better.

And if that fails, then we could try talking to PKWARE and the people who make Info-zip.
-- 
Paul Khoury | <pkhoury@loop.com> | Sent from my ThinkPad 701CS 
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