Well, it's been a total failure

[Walter Bright]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 09/13/2010 05:56 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> There's nothing wrong about preferring Windows over Linux. I'm just
>>> saying (much like you) that badly reinventing Unix tools under Windows
>>> is not quite productive.
>>
>> The unix version of zip has no option to set the file attributes either.
> 
> It does preserve them. Zip a binary and then unzip it - it'll run.


zip on unix has no way to set the Windows attributes, and zip on Windows has no 
way to set the unix attributes. Both have attributes that have no analogs on the 
other. Both have no way to set the non-native attributes.