[1.7] unzip is OK, zip is not

Charles Wilson cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm
Wed Jul 15 20:14:00 GMT 2009


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.

--
Chuck


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