Re: Some patches for zip and unzip under Cygwin and Unix

> For general usage on Win32 (or using Unzip in an environment where cygwin
> tools are mixed with "native" win32 programs), the "Cygwin-UNIX" is not
> recommended. Instead, people should use the supported cygwin port from
> win32/makefile.gcc, or even better, use the mingw compiler variant with
> win32/makefile.gcc.
> In those cases where people WANT to use the unix/Makefile cygwin port
> because of their needs to handle unix-fs symlinks, they are most probably
> working in a pure cygwin environment (using only cygwin tools or
> straight-forward ports of unix programs...). Then, their programs probably
> default to unix style LF line endings. In that case it might be unwanted to
> get MSDOS CR-LF style handling of text files.

OK, fair enough.  (I'm one of the exceptions, where I personally use
symlinks but work with a codebase that's supposed to have DOS-style
line endings, but I can easily modify my own copy.)

Cheers,
  Greg