Thanks Mateusz, I will report this to Info-Zip

On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 5:55 AM, Don Flowers <donr...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am currently running kubuntu 14.04 , 14.10 and Zorin OS 9 (14.04) but
> this started as early as 12.04. It is not the mirror per se - I can go back
> to what I thought was a bad download and (pk)unzip it and it turns out to
> be complete.
>
> On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 3:38 AM, Louis Santillan <lpsan...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Also, Info-Zip has a zipinfo binary.  The verbose output (-v) might
>> tell you something.
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 12:29 AM, Mateusz Viste <mate...@viste.fr> wrote:
>> > This is something you might want to report to the Info-Zip team instead
>> > of here. Don't forget to provide them with an example of a file that is
>> > correctly decompressed by pkunzip, but not by unzip.
>> >
>> > http://www.info-zip.org/
>> >
>> > Mateusz
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On 03/06/2015 03:52, Don Flowers wrote:
>> >> I've recently become aware of some incompatibility between our FreeDOS
>> >> unzip, Linux unzip and the legacy Pkunzip versions 2.04 and 2.50. I
>> >> download hundreds of SIMTEL/BBS and other vintage files a month and I
>> >> know that statistically a percentage of those will be incomplete or
>> have
>> >> CRC errors. But files that I know are complete are not being
>> >> uncompressed properly. This almost always shows up in a blank README
>> >> file. I typically download and unzip with linux but when I noticed this
>> >> anomaly I switched to FreeDOS unzip and noticed some improvement, but
>> >> when I switched to pkunzip the number of blank files has dropped
>> >> dramatically.  Has anyone else noticed this?
>> >>
>> >
>> >
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