From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ad50e6a11b0a7c8a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-03-07 00:44:24 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!dialin-145-254-049-080.arcor-ip.NET!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Releasing long file anmes in .zip/.tar.gz? Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 09:45:55 +0100 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de NNTP-Posting-Host: dialin-145-254-049-080.arcor-ip.net (145.254.49.80) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1047026662 65065304 145.254.49.80 (16 [77047]) User-Agent: KNode/0.7.1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:35015 Date: 2003-03-07T09:45:55+01:00 List-Id: Victor Porton wrote: > I'm going to release an Ada package (UniParser - a library for creating > grammar parsers). Gnat uses long filenames. What is the best solution > for release: > > I work under Linux. Windows archivers do not accept ZIP files created > by Linux "zip" with long filenames (more than 8.3). > > Should I: > > - Release in .tar.gz (Hey, Windows users, are you all able to > extreact?) It would work perfectly well for both Linux and Windows. BTW, there is a standard extension for tag+gzip = ".tgz". It is known to WinZip, WinCommander and other Win-stuff. > - Use file names shortened to 8.3 (krunching) > > - Any other solution? -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov www.dmitry-kazakov.de