Susanna Schroeder wrote: > I wrote a script to see exactly what cfx_zip sees in this file, and it is > the same 10,002 files that winzip saw, even though I am told the zip file > contains over 50,000 files. > > Zipped the file is 264 MB. > > Anyway, here's a description of the software that producted the zip file: > > "The program I am using for zipping is Info-Zip's Zip 2.3, which is > distributed with RedHat Linux 9.0. It was compiled with gcc 3.2.1 20021207 > (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2.1-2) for Unix (Linux ELF) on Jan 25 2003. > Information for it can be found at http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/ and > I believe 2.3 is the current release. This is the standard zip/unzip suite > for Linux, so this incompatibility is pretty surprising." > > Ever heard anything negative about Info-Zip?
Nope. Info-Zip is pretty much the benchmark when it comes to zip compression and decompression. It was originally written by Jean-Loup Gailly and Mark Adler, the two guys who wrote the most widely-used and definitive implementation of the DEFLATE algorithm out there: ZLib. Yup, it's good. Are you sure the archive isn't corrupt? -- Keith Gaughan, Developer Digital Crew Ltd., Pembroke House, Pembroke Street, Cork, Ireland http://digital-crew.com/ -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.296 / Virus Database: 265.5.3 - Release Date: 14/12/2004 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:187763 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
