SPONSORED LINKS
Hi Paul! Why don't you just finesse the problem? Create a self-extracting form of the ZIP file. Every form of ZIP archive builder I've heard of has that capability. Then your projected users don't have to scrabble around to find the precise version of unzipping program needed. Of course, that doesn't address the filename problem. My approach to that would be to just brute force rename things to the 8.3 format if necessary and not worry about it. If it bothers your conscience to do that, add a text file with the new filenames paired with the original file names and let the user deal with it as they see fit. This week long agonizing over zipping up a few files is ridiculous. Robert W. King I'm an ingenieur, NOT a bloody locomotive driver! SnailNet: 19023 TV Tower Rd, Winslow, Arkansas 72959 BellNet: 501-634-2086 InterNet: robtking@prioritysolutions.com http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/k/i/n/Robert-W-King/index.html > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Khoury [mailto:pkhoury@loop.com] > Sent: Friday, 24 April 1998 12:49 AM > To: Greg Alvandian; slppj@cc.usu.edu; thinkpad@cs.utk.edu > Subject: Re: Unzipping the ThinkPad Assistant > > > On Thu, 23 Apr 1998 13:52:15 -0600, Greg Alvandian wrote: > > Opps, I must have hit send too quick. > > >I had no problem unzipping the file with Winzip 6.2. I did have a > >problem displaying the pages in both Netscape 4 and IE 4. Some pages > >display others wont. Looking at the page source it appears the browsers > >are having a problem with some of the characters. The "_" underscore > >character seems to display as a y with an umlaut over it instead of an > >underscore. That might be part of the problem. > > This happens to me sometimes, but not with my pages. I use > Netscape for OS/2 > 2.02 (though it's more like 3.0, just IBM doesn't want to have > Netscape rename it). > > Do those long file > >names have spaces or are those underscores? > > They are indeed underscores. > > In Win95b they appear as > >underscores, in my browsers they appear as those funny y's (which I > >doubt they are supposed to be). > >Well I've got a grant proposal to get back to so that's all I have time > >for at the moment. > > Thanks Greg and everyone else for helping me out on this. :) > > -- > Paul Khoury | <pkhoury@loop.com> | Sent from my P75 Server > Proudly running OS/2 Warp 3/4, Slackware Linux, and Sun Solaris 2.4 > >