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|    Digital Man to Grease    |
|    Re: Problem with .zip    |
|    08 Mar 25 22:40:21    |
      TZUTC: -0800       MSGID: 57468.sync_sys@1:103/705 2c334e51       REPLY: 57467.sync_sys@1:103/705 2c33378e       PID: Synchronet 3.20e-Linux master/cc717b402 Mar 08 2025 GCC 12.2.0       TID: SBBSecho 3.23-Linux master/cc717b402 Mar 08 2025 GCC 12.2.0       COLS: 80       BBSID: VERT       CHRS: CP437 2       NOTE: FSEditor.js v1.105        Re: Re: Problem with .zip        By: Grease to Digital Man on Sat Mar 08 2025 09:27 pm               > > I have been having an issue with .zip. I am running Linux version of        > > Synchronet. When I add a file to an area I do it by upoading it. It finds        > > the file and starts the upload when it is almost finished it exits with        > > an error that .zip has errors. I have tried this locally and from a        > > remote computer.        > > I use multimail, and it has no problems going either way. Not sure what        > > is going on.        >        > DM> Check what you have set in SCFG->File Options->Testable File Types. The        > DM> stock config tests for ZIP file use 'zip' and 'unzip', so you need to        > DM> have those utils install on Linux - do you? --        >        > I do. I open a terminal and type both and they come up. It's like when it        > opens the zip, it finds a bad crc or something like that. It doesn't do it        > for all files. Just seemingly random ones.              Maybe it's not random. Perhaps the file is using a really old ZIP compression       scheme? Are you able to test and verify the ZIP files using the same version       of Info-zip before you "upload" it?              BTW, just in case you weren't aware:       https://wiki.synchro.net/faq:files#adding_files       --         digital man (rob)              Synchronet "Real Fact" #18:       Rob Swindell first learned to program in C by hacking on WWIV BBS software       Norco, CA WX: 51.4øF, 66.0% humidity, 0 mph NE wind, 0.00 inches rain/24hrs       --- SBBSecho 3.23-Linux        * Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)       SEEN-BY: 10/0 1 102/401 103/1 13 17 705 105/81 106/201 124/5016 128/187       SEEN-BY: 153/7715 154/110 214/22 218/0 1 215 601 700 720 840 860 880       SEEN-BY: 226/30 227/114 229/110 114 206 317 400 426 428 470 550 700       SEEN-BY: 229/705 266/512 280/464 291/111 301/1 320/219 322/757 342/200       SEEN-BY: 396/45 460/58 633/280 712/848 902/26 5075/35       PATH: 103/705 218/700 229/426           |
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