Re: Win32s version of Python

Hammond, Mark (MHammond@jm.cmutual.com.au)
Thu, 02 Feb 95 09:58:00 PST

> 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.

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.

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.

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.