Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2459 mails)

[Ken Schneider <suse-list3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Anders Johansson pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
> Randall R Schulz wrote:
> > On Monday 17 March 2008 14:45, Anders Johansson wrote:
> > > Stan Goodman wrote:
> > > > commandline I am trying to run is copied from the WORKING
> > > > installation in OS/2.
> > > I wonder if perhaps it could be that the copy from OS/2 did something
> > > to corrupt it?!
> > The file command should identify JAR files as "Zip archive data," if 
> > they're mostly intact. The "zipinfo this.jar" or "jar t that.jar" 
> > commands will list their contents.
>
> Well, no, not really. It's only required that a few bytes at the
> beginning of the file are in the right place for "file" to say that it's
> a zip file.
>
> file is a useful tool, but it is very frequently wrong
>
> zipinfo and jar similarly will only tell you that the index is in place,
> but it says nothing about the integrity of the rest of the file. You
> only find that out if you try to unpack it, when zip will say that the
> checksum failed
>
> > > How exactly did you copy it?
> > Are you perhaps thinking ASCII-mode FTP or the equivalent?
>
> Something along those lines, yes
>
> Anders

Would the file maybe need to be converted from EBCDIC to ASCII. Just 
curious as this often the case in files from an IBM system which is 
where OS/2 comes from.

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Ken Schneider
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