On 5/7/07, Bart Oldeman <bartoldeman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 does. The same problem happens with dosemu 1.2.2 (which crashes unless you use the -3 option of pkunzip). I'm going to fix it in DOSEMU by ignoring set attribute requests on directories but there are other workarounds, e.g. by using INFO-ZIP (for DOS or Linux) or older versions of pkunzip. On a mounted FAT partition the problem should not happen either.
I thought it had to be some obscure detail... :) Thanks for the info. I'll take a look at some of the alternatives for now. -- Joe Ripley vitaminjoe@xxxxxxxxx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
