Re: Win32s version of Python
David Shiflet (davidshi@microsoft.com)
Wed, 1 Feb 95 22:19:34 TZ
look for zipnt on ftp.cc.utexas.edu
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| From: "Hammond, Mark" <MHammond@jm.cmutual.com.au>
| To: "C. Derek Fields" <derek@gamekeeper.bellcore.com>
| Cc: python-list <python-list@cwi.nl>
| Subject: Re: Win32s version of Python
| Date: Thursday, February 02, 1995 9:58AM
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| > as I get a new video board so that I can run Win32s. My one complaint,
| > without even opening the "box" is that it is compressed and tar'red
| > using Unix tools instead of PKZIP, which is the standard PC utility.
| > Would it be possible for you to make a zip version available? Thanks.
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| The only problem I have with this is the long filenames that are used - both
| by Python, and to a lesser extent by the Windows GUI version. Although this
| is not good for Win32s, we can not do too much about it. Even if every one
| of the PythonWin files were 8.3, standard Python code, such as mimetools.py,
| linecache.py etc do have long file names. I havent totally addressed this
| issue, although Python 1.2 will make it easier.
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| When I first started this little project, I easily found gzip and tar tools
| for NT that handle long file names, but had more trouble with pkzip tools.
| Certainly the DOS version of pkzip (which really is the standard) cant
| handle them.
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| Do you know of an NT version of PKZip that does handle long file names?
| Even still, I would suspect that NT versions of tar and gzip are more
| readily available than NT versions of pkzip. If you can give me a reference
| to such a tool, I will consider providing it in both formats.
|
| Regards,
|
| Mark.
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