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From: subbarao@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kartik Subbarao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Norton QUerase and .ZIP files
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Date: 5 Dec 90 22:12:38 GMT
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Something went fishy the other day when it appeared that all of my .ZIP
files were corrupted for some unknown reason. The reason is kind of odd,
and thats why I'm asking why. The general way I used to create ZIP files
of everything in a directory was to do this:

pkzip zipfile *.*
del *.*
qu zipfile.zip # i.e unerase the just created ZIP file

however, it appears that deleting and undeleting a zip file somehow changes
it because afterwards when I do a pkunzip -t (or whatever the flag is that
verifies the stuff) pkzip finds problems that pkzipfix can't even fix.

I compared the file sizes before unerasure and afterwards, and they're the
same. Before I go and attack the problem in hex or something, is this or
isn't this a bug and should or shouldn't be corrected?



			-Kartik
			


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