[ale] when is a zip file not a zip file

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Hey, I resemble that remark.  Wait...

I do know the difference between rar and zip though.  Learned it
from....uh...when I needed a Linux program.

Sheesh.

On 9/5/06, Jeff Hubbs <hbbs at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Windows users know not of what they do.  You need unrar.
>
>
>
> Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> > I'm stumped -- but then I often stump easily.
> >
> > My son-in-law just sent me some pix of my new grandson -- born on
> > Saturday morning.  He told me he zipped them on a Winbloze box before
> > attaching them to an email.
> >
> > The email has this attachment:  New Folder.rar
> >
> > So I move it to a temp directory and from the command line type
> > "unzip Ne<tab> and get "unzip New\ Folder.rar"
> >
> > Tap the Enter key and unzip barfs telling me that this:
> >
> > "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.
> > unzip:  cannot find zipfile directory in one of New Folder.rar or
> >         New Folder.rar.zip, and cannot find New Folder.rar.ZIP, period."
> >
> > So is this a defective zip file or do I need a different program to
> unpack
> > this thing?
> >
> > I really would like to see these pix of my new grandson.
> >
> > Sean
> >
> >
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