Hi all, > Am 08.05.2022 um 03:18 schrieb Neville Smythe via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>: >> On 8 May 2022, at 2:00 am, Brian Milby wrote: >> It is a bug somewhere. See this big report: >> https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=21447 >> <https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=21447> >> I actually think it is related. The zip should be created as a Unix variant >> and not Fat and file attributes should be stored. One thing that could be >> tried is to manually set the executable bit when creating the archive. I was >> able to store a link in a zip using this method, but there is no way to read >> the file attributes in LC. > Brian, utter genius! > Not only do you pinpoint the bug — revZip is creating a ‘fat’ zip not a ‘unx’ > zip and not adding the external attributes – but it looks like you have > provided the workaround (for my problem of execute permissions at least) > I tried the implausible trick of using the undocumented > revZipSetItemAttributes > put 0x80000000 into tExtAttributes -- regular file > add 0x01ED0000 to tExtAttributes -- rwxrwxr-x -- modify as per file (and may > only do for Mac,Linux?) > revZipSetItemAttributes pArchive, pName, 3, tExtAttributes — 3 for unix > system > for each file as it is added to the archive. I didn’t really expect this to > work as the file is already added to the archive in ‘fat’ format. > Not only does unzip -Z report that the archive items are now in ‘unx’ format > with permissions rwxrwxr-x, but astonishingly the zip actually decompresses > to a working executable – well, only so far briefly tested on a Mac but it > seems likely this is going to work on all platforms. > As you point out in your bug 21447 report, revZip probably won’t be able to > decompress the archive correctly because of other deficiencies, but I only > need the user's system to unpack it. And I will have to modify the > permissions for each individual file in the archive. > I never thought I would use the expression, but, like , awesome! OK sorry I > went there, but jolly well done, that man! > > Neville
I really wonder how much more useful features are undocumented and why they do not find their way into the dictionary!? -- Klaus Major https://www.major-k.de https://www.major-k.de/bass kl...@major-k.de _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode