Re: More adventures in game crunching...

[Mike Maginnis <maginnis@tarnover.org>]

On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 16:07:54 GMT, Lyrical Nanoha
<LyricalNanoha@dosius.net> wrote:

>On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Mike Maginnis wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 03:35:37 GMT, Lyrical Nanoha
>> <LyricalNanoha@dosius.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 aiiadict@gmail.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> crunch4 (GZ)
>>>> won't open with winzip...
>>>>
>>>> Rich
>>>
>>> That's funny, gzip itself opens it no problem...
>>>
>>> -uso.
>>
>> Hmm.
>>
>> Results with various archivers (under Ecks-Pee) on the gzip files:
>>
>> Winzip: "Invalid Archive Directory"
>>
>> WinRAR: "The archive is either in unknown format or damaged."
>>
>> Win-GZ: treats the file as uncompressed data and tries to compress it
>> - does not recognize that it's a gzip file.
>>
>> gunzip for MS-DOS: "gunzip: crunch1.dsk.gz: not in gzip format"
>>
>> What am I missing here?
>
>Is the file size 119,675 bytes?
>
>-uso.

No, they came across as 143,360 bytes, which is  what made me think
they weren't compressed when they arrived at my end.  Changing the
extension did the trick.

Thanks.


- Mike
maginnis@tarnover.org

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