how to extract winzip files?
Jez Hancock
jez.hancock at munk.nu
Mon Feb 23 03:49:25 PST 2004
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 09:55:24AM +0100, Martin Vana wrote:
> Is there a way, I can uncompress zip files made under win?
> Unzip from ports collection probably can't do that:
>
> End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
> a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
> latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
> the last disk(s) of this archive.
>
> and I'm sure this is not multipart archive or broken file.
If this was a zip file created by WinXP itself I seem to remember having
trouble unzipping such files with unzip. I resorted to using winzip or
winrar or some such to create archives - which then extract fine using unzip.
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