[Info-vax] Alpha Community licenes.
Steven Schweda
sms.antinode at gmail.com
Mon Sep 19 22:14:39 EDT 2022
> I do not know why you are taking this personaly...
What's personal? I'm simply bewildered by your apparent
unwillingness to admit that the only problem here is a failure to use
widely available tools in a way which avoids the problem.
> I often *do* have issues reading text files (like read-me files
> or source code) from zipped VMS kits. In many cases this is due
> to that the original files had variable-length records.
Without knowing how these unspecified "zipped VMS kits" were made, or
how you handled them, I can't say why you had trouble. I would note,
however, that Info-ZIP UnZip on non-VMS systems has long had a
"VMS_TEXT_CONV" option (enabled by default -- See "unzip -v"), which is
supposed to deal helpfully with such files. If you rely on other unzip
programs which lack such a feature, then you might complain to their
authors. (If you see Info-ZIP UnZip misbehaving, then feel free to
complain to me.)
> I do not understand why you have a problem with that...
It's simply irrelevant to the problem with the recent VSI-generated
*_COMMUNITY_LICENSE_PAK.zip archives. (Whose files contained no such
variable-length records.)
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