From: James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...>
Date: 2004-09-09T06:12:38+09:00
Subject: Are there known issues with rubyzip on WIndows?

I've been using rubyzip to manipulate OpenOffice.org files,and it works 
great for reading and extracting, but I've run into some issues when 
trying to create a zip file on Windows.

It's not that I can't create a zip file; I can, and WinZip happily opens 
it.  But there something quirky, because OpenOffice won't read it.

The same ruby code running on Linux, though, works fine, producing a 
file that opens fine in OOo on both the Linux box and the windows machine.

My test scenario for this is:  Take a known good sxw file.  Extract the 
internal files; rezip using rubyzip.  Try to open the new doc in OOo.

When I unzip the new doc,and compare the files with the original source 
files, they are identical.  I can also use jar to zip up these files, 
and OOo is happy with the results.  So it does not seem that rubyzip on 
windows munges the files themselves, but it might be doing something 
with the zip headers or structure that irks OOo.

So, before I go too crazy trying to narrow this down, I'm wondering if 
anyone is aware of any issues or quirks with using rubyzip on Windows.

rubyzip 0.5.0 http://sourceforge.net/projects/rubyzip
ruby version 1.8.2

Thanks,

James