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Re: Unzipping the ThinkPad Assistant



On Thu, 23 Apr 1998 13:52:15 -0600, Greg Alvandian wrote:

>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.  Do those long file
>names have spaces or are those 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.
>-Greg A.
>Paul Khoury wrote:
>> 
>> >
>> >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
>> Proudly running OS/2 Warp 3/4, Slackware Linux, and Sun Solaris 2.4
>




-- 
Paul Khoury |  <pkhoury@loop.com> | Sent from my P75 Server
Proudly running OS/2 Warp 3/4, Slackware Linux, and Sun Solaris 2.4