[zip-devel] Patch and question

[Edi Weitz]

On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 20:23:54 +0200, David Lichteblau <david at lichteblau.com> wrote:

> Must be some kind of archive format compatibility problem.  Since we
> create ordinary FAT filesystem archives currently, I do not think
> that the choice of operating system would matter.
>
> WinZIP is known to handle our archives just fine.
>
> Is source code for FilZip available anywhere,

Unfortunately not, but it's a free download from <http://filzip.de/> -
maybe you can infer something from the archives produced by FilZip.

> or can you reproduce the problem with any other open source program?

No.  I haven't had any problems with FilZip until now.  ZIP archives
created with Debian's zip work fine.

Thanks,
Edi.