Re: Zip-Archive Mode uses old 8.3 filename format

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Lenz, Georg wrote:

> Actions:
> Using Zip-Archive Mode to browse a zip file (e.g. junit3.7.zip may download
> from www.junit.org) 
> 
>       (There is another problem related to the filename of the zip archive
> itself:
>       Actions:
>       Open file e.g: junit3.7.zip
>       Extract: e.g. faq.htm
> 
>       If you use the original archive name e.g. junit3.7.zip extraction
> does not work at all.
>       Every extraction command results in the message:
> 
>       Symptoms:
>       Message:
>       "`pkunzip' exited with status 9"

This is not an Emacs bug, but a limitation of the version of pkunzip that 
you have installed: I'm guessing that pkunzip doesn't support long file 
names (probably because it's a DOS executable).

To solve it, either install a Windows version of pkunzip, or, better yet, 
install InfoZip's Unzip, and set the variable archive-zip-use-pkzip to nil.