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Interesting that Winrar seems to have trouble to uncompress the first layer of it (zip to rars). (7-zip works fine.)
by fireattack 8y ago
Interesting that Winrar seems to have trouble to uncompress the first layer of it (zip to rars).
(7-zip works fine.)
- jethro_tell 8y agoWell, if someone out there had paid for winrar, perhaps the support would be better XD
- ty_a 8y agoUnderrated.
- deleted 8y ago[deleted]
- tobyhinloopen 8y ago“I paid for Winrar, AMA”
- rzzzt 8y agohttps://www.reddit.com/r/paidforwinrar https://www.reddit.com/r/paidforwinrar
- HeavyStorm 8y agoWHY????
- theoctopus 8y agoI've been unable to extract the inner rars with 7-zip. Each shakespeare.html just gives a "Data error"
- 0-_-0 8y ago7-zip 16.04 x64 on win10 works
- charonn0 8y agoThere's more than one way to read a zip. 7-zip reads the zip file by scanning from the beginning of the file for the first entry signature (which need not be at the start of the file, which is why this trick works at all.) WinRAR reads the central directory located at the end of the file, which is technically how you're supposed to do it, but entry offsets given in the central directory are messed up by the existence of the JPG data at the beginning of the file. There also appears to be ~61KB of garbage data at the end of the file, which will trip up some zip readers that use the central directory. tl;dr: The zip file technically malformed, whether or not a given archive reader will choke on it depends on which technique they use and how forgiving their implementation is.
- fireattack 8y agoThanks for the detailed explanation.