jar tool bug

Nic Ferrier kaffe@rufus.w3.org
Fri, 27 Oct 2000 22:57:21 +0100


>>> Patrick Tullmann <tullmann@cs.utah.edu> 27-Oct-00 6:17:00 PM >>>

>The jar tool blows up if a zero-byte manifest file is provided.
>Sun's jar tool does not blow up.  

This has annoyed me for a while but there is a more serious bug - the
jar tool doesn't seem able to cope with JAR 1.2 archives.

JAR 1.2 archives have no manifest signature for each file in the
archive - but unforunately the same Manifest version is used.


Nic