browsing zip archive breaks the archive?

[Nerijus Baliunas]

On 10 Apr 2002 14:12:50 -0400 Havoc Pennington <hp at redhat.com> wrote:

HP> > IIRC it is probably fixed in CVS (zip archive was modified after
HP> > you viewed html file in it).
HP> 
HP> Can anyone point me at the patch I need to grab? I don't want to
HP> upgrade our RPMs to CVS wholesale at this point in the release cycle.

You should probably look in mc-devel archives, it was 1-2 months ago
IIRC. Mailing list traffic is not very high.

BTW, could you please use external slang? There are messages about
another problem:
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Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 10:21:18 +0100
From: Stanislav Brabec <utx at penguin.cz>
Subject: terminal clipboard inside mc editor and viewer doesn't save EOLs (included SLang
bug)
To: "mc-devel at gnome.org" <mc-devel at gnome.org>

GNU Midnight Commander 4.5.99a

This bug occurs only with included slang, with slang-1.4.4 it is OK:

I like using terminal clipboard between mc editor or viewer and other
apps.

But with included slang copying from mc doesn't save EOLs, instead it
inserts lots of spaces.

Example: Using gnome-terminal and Shift-left-mouse, I am able to copy
any text from MC view and paste it to any other application. Included
slang doesn't save EOLs in text, so clipboard is unusable for multi-line
texts.

Recompiling mc with slang-1.4.4 completelly resolves the problem.
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Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 02:57:37 -0500 (EST)
From: Pavel Roskin <proski at gnu.org>
Subject: Re: terminal clipboard inside mc editor and viewer doesn't save EOLs (included
SLang bug)
To: Stanislav Brabec <utx at penguin.cz>
Cc: "mc-devel at gnome.org" <mc-devel at gnome.org>

Hi, Stanislav!

> But with included slang copying from mc doesn't save EOLs, instead it
> inserts lots of spaces.

Thank you for this observation!  I don't think that the included slang
library should be updated.  It is known to be portable.  Besides, it's
quite small and in the same time handy if you don't have slang installed.

Unless you have a specific fix, I'm not going to fix it.  But it may be 
worth mentioning in the documentation.

Also the rpm specfile should be changed to use the external slang.  The 
bugs with the external slang have been fixed long ago.
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Because of this bug mc rpm is almost unusable for me.

Regards,
Nerijus