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On Fri, 24 Apr 1998 01:31:01 -0500, Robert W. King wrote: >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. The idea is not as easy as it sounds. First, I'd have to change ALL the links, rename ALL the files, and I don't have a single Win95 or NT machine to create a self-extracting zip file, and I think people would get frustrated if all I gave them was an OS/2 executable. -- Paul Khoury | <pkhoury@loop.com> | Sent from my ThinkPad 701CS Proudly running OS/2 Warp 3/4, Slackware Linux, and Sun Solaris 2.4