Re: LYNX-DEV 2-7 download problem

[Jim Spath (Webmaster Jim)]

On Sat, 8 Feb 1997, Philip Webb wrote:
> > On Sat, 8 Feb 1997, Philip Webb wrote:
> > > had had CRs or LFs inserted between line continuations, ...
> 970208 Jim Spath wrote:
1997-02-08 :-)
> > I built the 2-7pre on IRIX Thursday or Friday and had (0) problems, other
> > than the typical "this module not optimized" from the Risc compiler.  Your
> > unzip must be bogus.
> -- that's a strong word (smile): it's the ordinary one available

Ok, it's *acting* bogusly...

> > Be sure you're using an unzip binary for your machine,
>    this is an SGI machine. 
> > not unzipping it under MSDOS, and expecting UNIX LFs where DOS has CRLFs.
> -- how could i be doing it under MSDOS (!!)?

Our folks at work have MS/Win on desktop, with NFS mounts to the
SGI box.  Another way is to unzip it first before copying it to
UNIX.  It happens.

> -- SO: what different flavors of UNIX  unzip  are there?

I use this one on Irix  (Hi Greg!):
=====
UnZip 5.20 of 30 April 1996, by Info-ZIP.  Maintained by Greg Roelofs.  Send
bug reports to the authors at address@hidden; see README for details.

Latest sources and executables are always in ftp.uu.net:/pub/archiving/zip, at
least as of date of this release; see "Where" for other ftp and non-ftp sites.

Compiled with cc for Unix (Silicon Graphics IRIX) on Jun 14 1996.

UnZip special compilation options:
        COPYRIGHT_CLEAN (PKZIP 0.9x unreducing method not supported)
        USE_EF_UX_TIME

UnZip and ZipInfo environment options:
           UNZIP:  [none]
        UNZIPOPT:  [none]
         ZIPINFO:  [none]
      ZIPINFOOPT:  [none]
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>    something doesn't fit somewhere & Lynx distributions should at least
>    alert users out there what to do if (ok, i know from last time).

Anyone who edits a Makefile *should* recognize the symptoms of CRLF
contanimination.  It's not Lynx-specific.

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