Creating directories with pkunzip, rar, et. al.

2007-05-07 Thread Joe Ripley
Hello! I'm not sure if this question has been asked before, but if it has, please let me know where I may find the answer. The problem I have is, when pkunzip (in my case, pkunzip 2.50) is ran with the '-d' switch (to automatically create the original directory structure of the archive) it

Re: Creating directories with pkunzip, rar, et. al.

2007-05-07 Thread Bart Oldeman
On 5/7/07, Joe Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem I have is, when pkunzip (in my case, pkunzip 2.50) is ran with the '-d' switch (to automatically create the original directory structure of the archive) it fails. ... The reason that PKUNZIP 'can't create' the files, is because the

Re: Creating directories with pkunzip, rar, et. al.

2007-05-07 Thread Joe Ripley
On 5/7/07, Bart Oldeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's an internal DOSEMU problem, and an old one at that! The problem is that DOSEMU emulates the archive DOS attribute through the user x bit. Very few DOS programs attempt to set or reset the archive attribute on directories, but pkunzip 2.50

Re: Creating directories with pkunzip, rar, et. al.

2007-05-07 Thread Joe Ripley
On 5/7/07, Joe Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/7/07, Bart Oldeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's an internal DOSEMU problem, and an old one at that! The problem is that DOSEMU emulates the archive DOS attribute through the user x bit. Very few DOS programs attempt to set or reset the

Re: Creating directories with pkunzip, rar, et. al.

2007-05-07 Thread Bart Oldeman
On 5/7/07, Joe Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/7/07, Joe Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, I had some time to do some testing, and I found that it's not that pkunzip is attempting to set the archive attribute. When run with the debug messages turned on, pkunzip tries to create the

Re: Creating directories with pkunzip, rar, et. al.

2007-05-07 Thread Joe Ripley
On 5/7/07, Bart Oldeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, first of all creating a directory does not involve any attributes, and secondly 0x10=directory, and 0x20=archive. Woops... I guess that shows how much of a newbie I am. :) As a hack to fix it, all I did was add one line to the beginning