in reply to multi-part zip files

That did it. I had an older version of Infozip, but I was not aware of that ugly part, which did the trick. Thanks.

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Re: Re: multi-part zip files
by steves (Curate) on Jun 27, 2003 at 20:32 UTC

    Much worse actually ... their fix makes the errors disappear, but it just skips files in the second piece silently ... results are the same and I can see thousands of files in the second piece that were never extracted. Argh.

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      My apologies. When it comes to zip, I either use Archive::Zip or InfoZip. Their FAQ claims to be able to handle those, so I trusted it...
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        Wait ... let me apologize. After more investigation, it turns out the two pieces I was given were given to me reversed. So, when I concatentated them in the order I was told, the fix up piece (the ugly part) ended up seeing just the end. It appears to be working now, but it's huge so it will be a while before I know for sure.

        I should have had a clue ... the piece I was originally told was the first one was smaller than the second, and the second ended on an even byte boundary.

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