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Newer page: version 2 Last edited on Tuesday, June 4, 2002 12:23:04 am by perry
Older page: version 1 Last edited on Tuesday, June 4, 2002 12:23:04 am by perry Revert
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 On Acorn RISC OS systems the suffixes are actually filetypes 
 (3 hex digit format). By default, zip does not compress 
 files with filetypes in the list DDC:D96:68E (i.e. Archives, 
-CFS files and PackDir files). 
+CFS files and ! PackDir files). 
  
  
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 On OS/2, zip cannot match some names, such as those 
 including an exclamation mark or a hash sign. This is a bug 
-in OS/2 itself: the 32-bit DosFindFirst/Next don't find such 
+in OS/2 itself: the 32-bit ! DosFindFirst/Next don't find such 
 names. Other programs such as GNU tar are also affected by 
 this bug. 
  
  
 Under OS/2, the amount of Extended Attributes displayed by 
 DIR is (for compatibility) the amount returned by the 16-bit 
-version of DosQueryPathInfo(). Otherwise OS/2 1.3 and 2. 
+version of ! DosQueryPathInfo(). Otherwise OS/2 1.3 and 2. 
 would report different EA sizes when DIRing a file. However, 
 the structure layout returned by the 32-bit 
-DosQueryPathInfo() is a bit different, it uses extra padding 
+! DosQueryPathInfo() is a bit different, it uses extra padding 
 bytes and link pointers (it's a linked list) to have all 
 fields on 4-byte boundaries for portability to future RISC 
 OS/2 versions. Therefore the value reported by ''zip'' 
 (which uses this 32-bit-mode size) differs from that 
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