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Article #224Re: ZIP bug
From: mbbr
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 11:16
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 11:16
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Dickless Davie tholen@antispam.ham the irrelevant Ignoranus whined and tholed: > Heiko Nitzsche writes: > > >> Looks like zip failed in this instance. I'm using > >> Zip 2.0.1 (Sept 18th 1993). Is this a known bug that has been fixed > >> in a more recent version? Is the bug related to the size of the file? > >> Nowhere near the 2 GB limit. > > > This version is ancient. > > Yes, I am aware that the version is old. I've been concerned about > backward compatibility. I've read about support for one particular > compression method being removed from more recent versions, and I'd > like to avoid a situation where I'm unable to decompress an existing > zip archive. > > > Get Zip 2.31 from http://www.info-zip.org/ > > and Unzip 5.52 as well. Since your version a lot of issues > > have been fixed. > > The version numbers have also been confusing. For example, hobbes has > something described as "Info-ZIP's Zip 5.51", but the associated file > is named zip23x2.zip, making it appear to be version 2.3, not 5.51. > > > ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/OS2/zip231c.zip > > ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/OS2/unz552.exe > > Which build are these? 32-bit executables? 16-bit executables? > Combined 16/32-bit executables? With or without encryption? Too > many versions! Too many notes, Salieri!
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