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authorScott Wegner <swegner@hdfgroup.org>2007-04-15 15:33:36 (GMT)
committerScott Wegner <swegner@hdfgroup.org>2007-04-15 15:33:36 (GMT)
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treef54fefcaec7fddbf6cca771892872b2fcde77eb6
parent26f835b908dd8721b703752219127b34da077814 (diff)
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[svn-r13666] Added Windows documentation for 7zip
No testing needed.
-rw-r--r--release_docs/INSTALL_Windows.txt11
-rwxr-xr-xrelease_docs/INSTALL_Windows_From_Command_Line.txt2
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/release_docs/INSTALL_Windows.txt b/release_docs/INSTALL_Windows.txt
index 1b1906c..f851cf4 100644
--- a/release_docs/INSTALL_Windows.txt
+++ b/release_docs/INSTALL_Windows.txt
@@ -33,12 +33,17 @@ Contents:
Preconditions:
- 1. Installed Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 or Intel Compiler and WinZip.
+ 1. Installed Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 or Intel Compiler and 7zip or WinZip.
1.1 Installed Intel Compiler 9.1 if you want to build
HDF5 Fortran libraries.
- Note: By default, WinZip will convert the Unix end of line format
+ Note: 1. 7zip is an open-source alternative to WinZip. Some of the
+ advanced functionality is disabled in WinZip unless you buy the
+ software. With 7zip, most of this functionality is included for
+ free.
+
+ 2. By default, WinZip will convert the Unix end of line format
when extracting .tar file. This conversion will cause
"false" failure in some HDF5 tools testings.
@@ -58,7 +63,7 @@ Preconditions:
c:\ (any drive)
MyHDFstuff\ (any folder name)
- 3. Download the hdf5-1.8.x source code package and use WinZip to
+ 3. Download the hdf5-1.8.x source code package and use 7zip or WinZip to
extract the HDF5 package into c:\MyHDFstuff. This creates a
directory called 'hdf5-1.8.x' under MyHDFstuff which contains
several files and directories. Rename "hdf5-1.8.x" to "hdf5".
diff --git a/release_docs/INSTALL_Windows_From_Command_Line.txt b/release_docs/INSTALL_Windows_From_Command_Line.txt
index 10e33cc..e49c791 100755
--- a/release_docs/INSTALL_Windows_From_Command_Line.txt
+++ b/release_docs/INSTALL_Windows_From_Command_Line.txt
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ SECTION II: Building and testing HDF5 C and C++ Library on command line
Users who have not install this utility, can open
IntelC++Compiler81 package, go to directory "IA32",
- open Data1.zip with winzip, find ICProjConvert80.exe and
+ open Data1.zip with 7zip or WinZip, find ICProjConvert80.exe and
extract it to a corresponding directory. For example,
C:\Program Files\Intel\CPP\Compiler80\Ia32\Bin