jar tool bug

Nic Ferrier nferrier at tapsellferrier.co.uk
Fri Oct 27 14:57:21 PDT 2000


>>> Patrick Tullmann <tullmann at 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


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