On Monday 10 April 2006 05:42 pm, Alex Mandel wrote: > Dylan Beaudette wrote: > > Howdy, > > > > downloaded some data from the seamless.usgs.gov website, only to find > > that the ZIP archives that it delivered expanded to garbage! > > > > running `file` on all of the contents returned "data", when other types > > should have been recognized. Also, a tiff file that was included in the > > archive is not being recognized as a tiff in any program. Text files have > > extra garbage near the top of the files. > > > > Any thoughts on what could be causing this? > > > > I have tried `unzip -b` as well, trying to force the un-archiving of the > > tiff file as binary, but without luck. > > > > Any thoughts/ ideas? > > > > Thanks! > > Are you sure the files you downloaded are good to begin with. Somehow I > doubt they posted md5 or other hash methods for checking. > What are the links, I'll try some on various other OSs with multitudes > of unzips software and see if I can get it to work then give you and md5 > to check for a working version. > > Alex
thanks alex, actually anything that i have downloaded _recently_ from seamless.usgs.gov has been delivered to me via download (you have to select an area on a map first) resulting in broken .zip files... Thanks -- Dylan Beaudette Soils and Biogeochemistry Graduate Group University of California at Davis 530.754.7341 _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
