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Re: WinXP zip password problem (was: Re: graph.ew)

• Posted by CChris <christian.cuvier at agricultur?.go?v.fr> Jun 02, 2008
• 770 views

Dan Moyer wrote:
> 
> CChris wrote:
> > 
> 
> > > > > > The best shot would be to wait for v0.70.4a, which I should have
> > > > > > released
> > this</font></i>
> > > > > > month, as it fixes this bug.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > The release has been delayed for various reasons, one of which being
> > > > > > the
> > current</font></i>
> > > > > > development leading to Eu v4.0. I expect to have less to do on this
> > > > > > front
> > soon,</font></i>
> > > > > > andthis way releae the fixed version.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > CChris
> > > > > 
> > > > > Just curious:  can you make this release be zipped in such a way that
> > > > > native
> > > > >  WinXP etc can unzip it?  
> > > > > 
> > > > > Dan
> > > > 
> > > > I tried that, and it had seemed to work. Just not sure what the actual
> > > > problem
> > > > is.
> > > > Well, it is a bug in the OS, or in one of its core applications, after
> > > > all...
> > > 
> > > It is??  I'm sure I've downloaded/unzipped other Euphoria contributions
> > > with WinXP without the "password" problem.  But I haven't recently
> > > *zipped*
> > > anything (under XP); how are you doing that?
> > > 
> > > Dan
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > CChris
> > 
> > Using the integrated abilities to zip Directory Opus has.
> > 
> > I'll check the compression rate again, it had seemed that a high rate would
> > confuse XP, while a lower rate wouldn't. Just guesswork.
> > 
> > CChris
> 
> Don't mean to make a problem for you, just seems more than a few people will
> try to use XP native to unzip it, not be able to, & give up.  I'm not
> familiar with Directory Opus, but looking at their website I wonder if 
> maybe you accidentaly left encryption on as a default?  Probably not, just
> occured to me from their online doc:
> 
> "Ask for encryption and compression settings when copying files into ZIP
> files:
> This option selects whether Opus should prompt you for settings whenever you
> copy files into the ZIP archive."
> 
> Dan

I'm not on my home machine right now.
But, if there was some encryption, dragging the contents wouldn't extract them,
would it?

CChris