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echo: elebbs_support
to: Mike Ehlert
from: David Overbeek
date: 2004-09-06 10:35:00
subject: Re: EleBBS: Long File Names With fi

* In a message originally to All, Mike Ehlert said:

 ME> * EleBBS Support List

 ME> Hi Dave,

 ME> > Hi There Is it me or a bug. Either using an upload scanner or elemgr
 ME> > With longfile names i cannot extract the file_id.diz file. But if i
 ME> > rename the file to xxxxxxxx.xxx it works fine.

 ME> Did you check to see if your version of PKZIP/PKUNZIP supports long
 ME> file names? The popular 2.04g for example only supports 8.3
 ME> character names.

No it doesnt, i just figrued that out last night.
So i grabbed a copy of PKZIPC.EXE
Does anyone have the command line for that one.
Or maybe someone can point out another zip / unzip program that is better


Thanks
Dave

Coolmax


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