[1.7] unzip is OK, zip is not

Thu Aug 6 18:16:00 GMT 2009

Charles Wilson wrote:
> Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
>> I have been running Cygwin 1.7 for a while.
>>>> There is one annoying problem, when ZIP/UNZIP were installed, I have
>> an unzip.exe executable, but no zip.exe executable. This doesn't
>> matter in *sh shells, but does matter when I'm using Cygwin in a "DOS"
>> window:
>>>> c:\>which unzip
>> unzip is an external : C:\Cygwin\bin\unzip.exe
>>>> c:\>which zip
>> zip is an unknown command
>>>> Is there a way to fix this (other than by making another copy of the file)?
>> Known packaging error in zip-3.0-10. I haven't had a chance to respin
> and push zip-3.0-11 yet.
>> Just 'mv zip zip.exe' for now.

Should be fixed (for cygwin-1.7) by recent zip-3.0-11 release. This
packaging bug did not occur on cygwin-1.5, so zip-3.0-1 has not been
updated.
--
Chuck
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