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Date:Mon Jul 26 22:53:42 1999 
Subject:Re: Correction (was HELP Re: Problem with windows version of free poplog) 
From:Martin Eales 
Volume-ID:990726.01 

In article <379AFF0F.9AF882FF@cwcom.net>,
robottom@cwcom.net writes
>
>
>Aaron Sloman wrote:
>> Each directory DISKN should have an empty file called DISKN.ID
>> (tar creates these but apparently Winzip doesn't).

>I have tried that (although admittedly I am a newcomer to this).  I 
>tried
>it for Disk2 only.  In the directory C:\Windows\Temp\pcwin155\disk2
>(which is what Winzip 70 extracts pcwin155.zip into), I created a 
>folder
>called
>
>C:\Windows\Temp\pcwin155\disk2\disk2.id.
>
>I  then attempted to extract Disk2.id from the unzipped pcwin155 file
>again.  The error message I got this time was that Winzip was unable 
>to
>extract the file.  Clicking on the File Properties for Disk2.id in the
>unzipped tar file, Winzip told me that it contained 29 files with 0%
>compression.
>
>Could this be the problem or is it (as it usually is) just my ignorance??

What you have to do is create an empty file (not a folder) and
put it in each of the subdirectories ..\disk2 to ..\disk10,
produced when you unpack the archive, naming these files
..\disk2\disk2.id to ..\disk10\disk10.id respectively. You could
create and save an empty file with a text editor like Notepad
and copy it around changing the name each time. 

A better alternative would be for Aaron to put the Windows
distribution in a .zip file that can be unzipped correctly by a
Windows unzipper that works properly (not WINZIP). I have
tested UNZIP and FREEZIP (both of which are freeware) on a
reconstituted poplog.zip and both of these unpack the zip file
correctly, including zero length files. UNZIP is only 111 Kb and
could be put on the ftp site.

The Windows version of poplog has somewhat limited
functionality at present. Using the emacs utilities available from
Birmingham I have the pop-mode working correctly in Emacs in
Windows but I can't run poplog as a subprocess (as you can in
Linux). Does anyone know how to do this ?
-- 
Martin Eales