Re: [Freedos-user] Zip vs Pkzip

2015-06-03 Thread Don Flowers
I am currently running kubuntu 14.04 , 14.10 and Zorin OS 9 (14.04) but this started as early as 12.04. It is not the mirror per se - I can go back to what I thought was a bad download and (pk)unzip it and it turns out to be complete. On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 3:38 AM, Louis Santillan

Re: [Freedos-user] Zip vs Pkzip

2015-06-03 Thread Louis Santillan
Also, Info-Zip has a zipinfo binary. The verbose output (-v) might tell you something. On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 12:29 AM, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste.fr wrote: This is something you might want to report to the Info-Zip team instead of here. Don't forget to provide them with an example of a file

Re: [Freedos-user] Zip vs Pkzip

2015-06-03 Thread Mateusz Viste
This is something you might want to report to the Info-Zip team instead of here. Don't forget to provide them with an example of a file that is correctly decompressed by pkunzip, but not by unzip. http://www.info-zip.org/ Mateusz On 03/06/2015 03:52, Don Flowers wrote: I've recently become

Re: [Freedos-user] Zip vs Pkzip

2015-06-03 Thread Don Flowers
Thanks Mateusz, I will report this to Info-Zip On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 5:55 AM, Don Flowers donr...@gmail.com wrote: I am currently running kubuntu 14.04 , 14.10 and Zorin OS 9 (14.04) but this started as early as 12.04. It is not the mirror per se - I can go back to what I thought was a bad

Re: [Freedos-user] Zip vs Pkzip

2015-06-03 Thread Rugxulo
Hi again, On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 4:56 AM, Don Flowers donr...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Mateusz, I will report this to Info-Zip I don't know why you would contact them. It's probably not their bug. In fact, I don't think it's a bug at all! Also, keep in mind that we have no idea whether they

[Freedos-user] Zip vs Pkzip

2015-06-02 Thread Don Flowers
I've recently become aware of some incompatibility between our FreeDOS unzip, Linux unzip and the legacy Pkunzip versions 2.04 and 2.50. I download hundreds of SIMTEL/BBS and other vintage files a month and I know that statistically a percentage of those will be incomplete or have CRC errors. But

Re: [Freedos-user] Zip vs Pkzip

2015-06-02 Thread Louis Santillan
With Info-Zip (FreeDOS, djgpp, Linux) and pkzip, you can always the test the file with -t (or -test) command. Which specific version of Info-Zip have you been using? A specific Info-Zip version and a specific zip file to test against would go a long way to helping you. On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at

Re: [Freedos-user] Zip vs Pkzip

2015-06-02 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Jun 2, 2015 8:53 PM, Don Flowers donr...@gmail.com wrote: I've recently become aware of some incompatibility between our FreeDOS unzip, Linux unzip and the legacy Pkunzip versions 2.04 and 2.50. I download hundreds of SIMTEL/BBS and other vintage files a month and I know that