Winzip And Tar Files

October 21, 2004 in Uncategorized | No comments

Note that “TAR file smart CR/LF conversion” in WinZip is only smart if you happen to know it exists and aren’t doing cross platform development which is being screwed up by said conversion. Hours wasted.

Tool developers: if your tool isn’t supposed to mung the date in some way, leave it alone.

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