On Thu, 24 Aug 2000 10:50:47 +0200 (CEST), Michael Polak wrote:
> This sounds like serious bug. Do you really mean lenght of
> re-created ZIP file, not length of message ?
Re-created binary length. But then, IIRC this is a really old
bug? I already reported about this behavior here some time ago
but nobody takes it seriously. Guess no single ACCmailer
aboard...
When decoding BASE64 binary attachment, Arachne usually
appended a single byte at the end of the decoded file (not
always). This shouldn't be a problem if the binary file is
complete, PKUNZIP -- for example -- simply ignoring this
extraneous byte. But if the attachments are *part* of a
splitted large binary file, then these extra bytes always choke
PKUNZIP. Even PKZIPFIX won't help. Currently I just use a
little C program to truncate the extra byte, before combining
the parts with MSDOS's COPY /b command.
--Eko
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