From: James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...>
Date: 2004-09-10T09:08:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Are there known issues with rubyzip on WIndows?

James Britt wrote:

> 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

One more quirk:  Same code, same Ruby, same PC, works fine when run from 
cygwin terminal rather than Windows CMD box.

James