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   Digital Man to Mike Powell   
   3.21 compression issues   
   15 Jul 25 13:50:14   
   
   TZUTC: -0700   
   MSGID: 58336.sync_sys@1:103/705 2cdcd8e6   
   REPLY: 14208.dove-sync_sys@723:320/1 2cdbd905   
   PID: Synchronet 3.21a-Linux master/05e4146d5 Jul 02 2025 GCC 12.2.0   
   TID: SBBSecho 3.28-Linux master/e2705e616 Jul 05 2025 GCC 12.2.0   
   COLS: 80   
   BBSID: VERT   
   CHRS: CP437 2   
   FORMAT: flowed   
   NOTE: FSEditor.js v1.105   
     Re: 3.21 compression issues   
     By: Mike Powell to All on Tue Jul 15 2025 09:53 am   
      
    > data_block returned -25: Unsupported ZIP compression method (6: imploded))   
    > extracting /sbbs/data/file/0001.rep   
    >   
    >   
    > I have confirmed that the REP packets are NOT imploded.  I am using -e0 so   
    > the are STORED.  PKZIP -v confirms this.   
    >   
    > Checking my data dir shows that this only started happening yesterday after   
    > the upgrade from 3.20a to 3.21, while the version of zip being used to   
    > compress the packets and also to decompress have not changed.   
    >   
    > Every packet uploaded since the "upgrade" has been marked bad.   
      
   The error is from libarchive (not zip or unzip) - it thinks the file(s) use   
   the (legacy, unsupported) implode compressoin method. I don't recall changing   
   the version of libarchive used with SBBS between v3.20 and current dev   
   (v3.21a) - so that's surprising.   
      
   Maybe send me a copy of one of the files so I can take a look-see?   
      
   You could also use the archive.js script (with jsexec) to test the files with   
   libarchive.   
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