>> C:\cygwin\usr\share\man\man1\allec.1
>> C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\doc\html\atobm.1.html
I don't have a system against which to check this conjecture, but if
you do a DOS attrib on each of these files my guess is that the first
is created as a +R symlink and the second as a +S symlink*; and if you
do a DOS dir the first will be revealed as a .lnk file and the second
will not. It looks to me as though the zipper you're using understands
and can re-create files of the first sort, but the second goes wrong.
(Or maybe even +S +H which might help explain its invisibility, but
don't think so.)
For different but similar reasons (the need to copy an entire Cygwin
system to other file systems via a DVD which can faithfully transfer
+R but not +S files whilst preserving these attributes) I have gone
through the system re-creating all original +S symlinks as +R. If the
above conjecture is true / looks as though it might be true, and if
you think this re-creation might help I can send you the script. Fergus
You are right. The first file has R and the second one has S attrib set.
So, I guess your script to change all the S attribs to R should work for
me too. Could you please send it to me.
I am wondering:
Why would they set these html files as System files?
Why info-zip (or probably any DOS app) can't restore them??
Why WinXP's internal unzipper goes an order of magnitude slower if the
archive has S files???
Thanks,
Vinod
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