Zip file problem on Mac

[Mike Kerner]

completely off-topic, but brian said something that i forgot to repeat, at
the time
access to source in the libraries, etc. has saved me a lot of time when
debugging.
i ran into a situation with one of the other libraries, a couple of weeks
ago. i was stumped, and thought about submitting a ts request or a bug
report, but being able to read through and step through the source helped
me solve the problem.

On Sun, May 8, 2022 at 2:23 PM Klaus major-k via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Hi Brian,
>
> > Am 08.05.2022 um 20:19 schrieb Brian Milby via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
> >
> > I imagine this one isn’t documented due to the issues where you can’t
> read properties from an existing zip file.  I think I found it when digging
> into the source.
> > I’m sure there are some that could be found by looking at the source
> code that is still available.
>
> I bet there are, but surely won't take a look... 8-)
>
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> >> On May 8, 2022, at 1:33 PM, Klaus major-k via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >>>> Am 08.05.2022 um 03:18 schrieb Neville Smythe via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
> >>>>> On 8 May 2022, at 2:00 am, Brian Milby wrote:
> >>>> It is a bug somewhere. See this big report:
> >>>> https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=21447 <
> https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=21447>
> >>>> I actually think it is related. The zip should be created as a Unix
> variant and not Fat and file attributes should be stored. One thing that
> could be tried is to manually set the executable bit when creating the
> archive. I was able to store a link in a zip using this method, but there
> is no way to read the file attributes in LC.
> >>> Brian, utter genius!
> >>> Not only do you pinpoint the bug — revZip is creating a ‘fat’ zip not
> a ‘unx’ zip and not adding the external attributes – but it looks like you
> have provided the workaround (for my problem of execute permissions at
> least)
> >>> I tried the implausible trick of using the undocumented
> revZipSetItemAttributes
> >>> put 0x80000000 into tExtAttributes -- regular file
> >>> add 0x01ED0000 to tExtAttributes -- rwxrwxr-x -- modify as per file
> (and may only do for Mac,Linux?)
> >>> revZipSetItemAttributes pArchive, pName, 3, tExtAttributes  — 3 for
> unix system
> >>> for each file as it is added to the archive. I didn’t really expect
> this to work as the file is already added to the archive in ‘fat’ format.
> >>> Not only does unzip -Z report that the archive items are now in ‘unx’
> format with permissions rwxrwxr-x, but astonishingly the zip actually
> decompresses to a working executable – well, only so far briefly tested on
> a Mac but it seems likely this is going to work on all platforms.
> >>> As you point out in your bug 21447 report, revZip probably won’t be
> able to decompress the archive correctly because of other deficiencies, but
> I only need the user's system to unpack it. And I will have to modify the
> permissions for each individual file in the archive.
> >>> I never thought I would use the expression, but, like , awesome! OK
> sorry I went there, but jolly well done, that man!
> >>>
> >>> Neville
> >>
> >> I really wonder how much more useful features are undocumented and why
> they do not find their way into the dictionary!?
>
> Best
>
> Klaus
>
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>
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