Re: mc 4.5.55 has a bug with zip support

[Dominik Mierzejewski <dmierzej elka pw edu pl>]

On Tuesday, 22 January 2002, Jari Karppinen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I while ago I compiled & installed mc version 4.5.55 on Redhat 7.2 using
> this source package:
> 
> http://rhcontrib.bero.org/RPMS/SRPMS/mc-4.5.55-1.src.rpm

I prepared it from an older RH package by replacing the source tarball
and updating RH's patches.

> I have a simple shell script that I use to wgets stuff from certain
> webpages (mainly lecture notes, but that's not important). Now 'wget -m
> -np -nH' produces a directory named %7E<username>, where the %7E is
> obviously a replacement for the ~ character.
> 
> I used zip to compress all those directories, and later tried to browse
> the contents of that zip file with mc. It displays those directories as
> 0.000000E+00<username> which indicates that mc probably mistakes the %7E's
> for a format string. Obviously unpacking (i.e. copying from the zip)
> doesn't work, too.
> 
> Here are the versions of zip and unzip:
> zip-2.3-10
> unzip-5.42-1

Well, can you unzip that file manually (i.e. not using mc, but only
unzip itself)?

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Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <rathann(at)we.are.one.pl>