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- From: roe2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Cave Newt)
- Subject: Re: ZIPfix
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.193352.21217@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 19:33:52 GMT
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- rogerj@aix.rpi.edu (Diversion (Jeff Rogers)) writes:
-
- >Is there an Info-ZIP version of zipfix? Or any other type of zipfix (besides
- >pkzipfix)? Something that will take a corrupted zipfile (or truncated
- >zipfile) and extract the 'good' information from it?
-
- Alas, no. All of us agree it would be a Good Thing, and all of
- us have expressed interest in writing such a thing someday, but
- we also have a huge backlog of improvements to Zip and UnZip to
- do first. If PKZIPFIX won't do it for you, your only recourse
- at the moment is probably to use a binary editor (or possibly
- funzip in conjunction with "tail +###c bad.zip"--funzip can
- extract the first file in a zipfile, and tail could be used to
- "lop off 'is 'ead" for a second, third, fourth, ..., pass).
-
- Sorry...
-
- Greg Roelofs
-