Gary van Sickle wrote
To the OP (sic!): "Old" != "Well Tested". You should be testing
whatever program
you're using to do backups, GNU, Cygwin, or otherwise.
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No testing that I could do is as comprehensive as the trial by thousands
of users that any new version of zip will have been subjected to by the
time it has been out for a few months. I suspect any release that is
described as stable has already been much better tested than I could do.
The biggest bug risk in my backups is in the scripts that generate the
zip and tgz files.
What I did not realize was that the modifications of zip for cygwin are
not trivial and that separate testing is required. So I should not be
in a big hurry to upgrade, even if the version of zip has been around a
while. I don't unzip frequently enough to be a very helpful tester myself.
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