[Clipart] Fix for file extension issue
Bryce Harrington
bryce at bryceharrington.com
Fri Jul 2 23:28:39 PDT 2004
On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote:
> PKZip 2.50 and 2.04G both say this zipfile is corrupted and recommend
> using pkzipfix. In my experience, that always means the file was
> either mangled in transit (such as by being transferred on a bad floppy
> (unlikely in this case), by EOL conversions when being transfered over
> the internet in a text mode (e.g., via ftp), or by being sent using an
> encoding that doesn't encode control characters and non-ASCII
> characters, over a medium where this is not safe (such as usenet)) or
> (much more likely in this case) that the file was truncated due to a
> network connection being dropped, a program (such as a browser)
> crashing, the user hitting cancel, or some other interruption.
>
> pkzipfix was able to recover _some_ of the files in the archive.
> They're JPEGs. No README. (There could have been one in there
> originally, but I wasn't able to recover it.)
Ah, okay, makes sense that it was busted, that'd explain it. Thanks for
investigating it.
Bryce
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