Re: Trouble with gzip to pkzip?

[aa382@freenet3.carleton.ca (Marc Sira)]

In our last episode, ag471@yfn.ysu.edu (Eric S. Ford) said:

>Anyone out there besides myself have trouble getting tlarson's "gzip to pkzip"
>file to unzip?  Well I stumbled across a solution.  None of the unzip utilities
>I have on my GS would work.  I kept getting 'Bad CRC' errors or 'Unrecognized
>compression' errors.  I tried every thing from gno's unzip to PMPUnzip to
>Angel.  Today I had a wild idea and took the 'gz2pkz.zip' file to my office
>and tried using my Mac Unzip 2.0.1.  Voila! It worked first time.  I suspect
>Mr Larson used a Mac to preprocess his file before posting it and there must
>be some differences between what the Mac creates and what the GS expects in
>a .zip archive.

Do you mean the first posting? Macbinary header, possibly...

The second posting unpacked with Angel for me. gz2pkz works, but the routine
to read a filename is mildly muddled - it drops the first character you give
it. Thus you'll need to specify "xfoo.gz" for file foo.gz.

Still a welcome addition, nonexistent user interface and all. ;)

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