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Date:      Mon, 23 Feb 2004 11:49:23 +0000
From:      Jez Hancock <jez.hancock@munk.nu>
To:        Martin Vana <martin.vana@vslib.cz>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: how to extract winzip files?
Message-ID:  <20040223114923.GB10922@users.munk.nu>
In-Reply-To: <20040223095524.072569c6.martin.vana@vslib.cz>
References:  <20040223095524.072569c6.martin.vana@vslib.cz>

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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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