Re: ANNOUNCE FDIinstall preview -> directory structure / tool

Wolf <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freedos.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Eric Auer wrote:

> I propose that the installer can stay simple, a .bat for example,

I agree.

> PPS: Yes, it would be nice to allow a package name argument that differs
> from the basename of the zip - last but not least because:
> - a batchfile is unable to split basename and extension
> - 8.3 names for the zip often cause "cooltool.exe" to end up in a zip
>   with a name like "cto45b2.zip" (cooltool 45 beta 2)...

That was my thought too. That would allow one to be in another directory,
cuz then you could specify the full path to the zip.

> By the way, neither my DOS nor my Linux "zip" tool have -k, but I will

Mine does. But unfortunately that doesn't change the behavour of
unzip -Z -1. It still lists files like

BIN/
BIN/FOO.EXE
SOURCE/
SOURCE/FOO/
...

Yes with slashes... :( But luckily RM can handle that ;)

--Wolf

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