extraction of Mac revZipped file blocked on Win

Phil Davis revdev at pdslabs.net
Fri Feb 9 12:02:23 EST 2007


Thanks Bill! So it sounds like I won't need to do anything special when 
developing Rev-only unzip features on Windows. That's good!

Phil


Bill Marriott wrote:
> Phil,
> 
>> Can anyone offer a clue as to what caused my original problem [with Zip 
>> files]?
> 
> 
> Windows has some additional security measures that render its built-in 
> unzipper of dubious value. It won't extract .com files for example. You 
> almost always need a third party utility whether it's 7zip (my fave), 
> WinZip, WinRAR< StuffIt, etc. This is what you're running into.



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