Re: gvim64/win7 claims error on unzip, but unzip get no error, why?

On Fri, 21 Oct 2011, Linda W wrote:

> I tried to open a .jar file in gvim (7.3). and got an error (which one
> has to type in manually, as vim won't let you cut/paste -- a much
> maligned user-hindrance, when it was first widely used by Microsoft):
>
> unzip: cannot find or open C:/Users/lindaw/AppData/Roaming/....
>
> So I open up a console window and try the command:
> (and)...
> ***warning*** (zip#Browse) ... same message as above....
>
>
>
> /Users/lindaw> unzip -l
> C:/users/lindaw/AppData/Roaming/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/lindaw/extensions/{funnynumber}/chrome/file.jar
> Archive:
> C:/users/lindaw/AppData/Roaming/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/lindaw/extensions/{funnynumber}/chrome/file.jar
> Length Date Time Name
> --------- ---------- ----- ----
> 1109 09-29-2011 07:39 content/menucommander.js
> 14574 09-29-2011 07:39 content/browser.js
> 22524 09-29-2011 07:39 content/script.js
> 3416 09-29-2011 07:39 content/install.js
> ....
>
> ---
> I.e. works just fine...
>
> So why didn't it work in Vim? Doesn't make sense. My first guess is
> it is I mistakenly installed broken 32-bit version and it couldn't
> call the right programs or access the right files due to windows
> redirection, but I can't think of any of the programs in this case,
> that it would have called where it needed a 64-bit version, so I'm
> stumped... Why does it work at the shell, but not from Vim?

My guess would be that you're attempting to use a Cygwin or MSYS version
of unzip from a Windows-native version of Vim. Or vice versa,
perhaps... Either way you might run into directory separator issues.

What do you get from unzip -v (or --version, maybe)?

How about :version (from within Vim -- just the lines up to the start of
the features)?

Also, are you typing exactly what's on-screen? Or are you using '/' in
place of '\'?

--
Best,
Ben

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