Re: Trouble with gzip to pkzip?

[ag471@yfn.ysu.edu (Eric S. Ford)]

In a previous article, aa382@freenet3.carleton.ca (Marc Sira) says:

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>In our last episode, ag471@yfn.ysu.edu (Eric S. Ford) said:
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>>Anyone out there besides myself have trouble getting tlarson's "gzip to pkzip"
>>file to unzip?  [ rest of original expunged ]
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>Do you mean the first posting? Macbinary header, possibly...

No, I had to use a Mac to unzip it.  I got identical results from both postings.
The binscii'd files downloaded fine and GSCII+ produced the file "gz2pkz.zip".
I then tried every unzip utility I could find from GNO to PMPUnzip to Angel but
was unable to get that .zip file to produce anything other than file fragments
(files with 0 length or partial names, i.e. one letter names) or give me a
CRC error message.  I almost gave up but then tried the Mac and Unzip 2.0.1 and
that worked.  However,...

>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.

Even after getting it unzipped I haven't been able to get gz2pkz to work.  
Admittedly, I only tried it on one file, downloaded it specifically for
testing.  However, gz2pkz only gives me an error message indicating the file 
is not a gzip file.  I immediately assumed it must be looking for a specific
filetype and have sent a query to tlarson regarding that.  I'm beginning to
think I have some quirk to my system or between me and the nodes I download
from.  I seem to be having frequent problems with downloaded files not 
working for me while others have no problems.  I don't experience such problems
with any other files.

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

I'm sure I'll agree, when I get it working!

Eric S. Ford


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