I just tried it with the same version of zip - windows 'opens' the zipfile,
but it actually prompts for password if you want to 'extract' it. Same
behaviour on linux if you do a unzip -l xxx. You get to see the list of
files without password, but you would need it for extract.

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Jean Jordaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> 'lo there
>
> I wanted a zipfile with a password, weak is OK, so I did:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/media/disk$ zip -r -e regulator.zip Power\ regulator
> Enter password:
> Verify password:
>
> On Linux I'm prompted for password upon extraction, but Windows just
> opens the zipfile. Huh?
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/src/gplus-0.40.01$ zip -v
> This is Zip 2.32 (June 19th 2006), by Info-ZIP.
>
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