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- From: jason@jarthur.claremont.edu (Jason Merrill)
- Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug
- Subject: Re: gzip0.8.1 will not unzip unix-zipped files
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 21:44:45 -0500
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- Sender: daemon@cis.ohio-state.edu
- Approved: bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu
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- Message-ID: <JASON.93Jan25230741@ooze.claremont.edu>
- References: jason@jarthur.claremont.edu (Jason Merrill)
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- >>>>> aoki@madonna.physics.ucla.edu (Ken-ichiro Aoki) writes:
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- > when I use unix-zip and try to unzip using gunzip, I get the following.
- > g.zip: first entry not deflated or stored--can't extract
-
- > zip I used was
- > Zip 1.0 (29 September 1991)
-
- There's your problem; Zip 1.0 uses the Implosion method, which is
- incompatible with Deflation. gzip only understands Deflation, so is unable
- to decompress the file. You should upgrade to Zip 1.9 and UnZip 5.?.
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- Jason Merrill jason@jarthur.claremont.edu
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