ZIP v3.0: unable to seek in input file

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Al Savage

2013-04-11 03:27:49 UTC

[C:\temp]zip -v
Copyright (c) 1990-2008 Info-ZIP - Type 'zip "-L"' for software license.
This is Zip 3.0 (July 5th 2008), by Info-ZIP.

[C:\temp]zip -o aspirb10.zip
zip warning: unable to seek in input file aspirb10.zip
zip I/O error: A previous error has occurred on the stream.
zip error: Input file read failure (aspirb10.zip)

[C:\temp]unzip aspirb10.zip
Archive: aspirb10.zip
inflating: INSTALL.CMD
inflating: ASPIROUT.SYS
inflating: ASPIROUT.DDP
inflating: ASPIROUT.TXT
inflating: ASPIDBUG.EXE (72 bytes EAs)
inflating: ASPIOPT.EXE (72 bytes EAs)
inflating: OS2ASPI.DMD
inflating: OS2ASPI.DDP
inflating: OP-NUM.TXT
inflating: ASC-NUM.TXT

I have a large number of ZIP files (275 in one directory of 1300) that
give this error when using the -o option, and I've no idea why. The
ones I've checked seem to unpack OK.

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Al S.

Al Savage

2013-04-11 19:44:55 UTC

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Post by Al Savage
[C:\temp]zip -o aspirb10.zip
zip warning: unable to seek in input file aspirb10.zip
zip I/O error: A previous error has occurred on the stream.
zip error: Input file read failure (aspirb10.zip)

The above was on an eCS 2.1 box with C: being a local JFS drive.

I don't have that error on the same file when I'm doing the same
operation on a W4 FP17 box, or a WSA box, only the eCS 2.1 box.

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Al S.

Allan

2013-04-11 23:27:56 UTC

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Post by Al Savage
[C:\temp]zip -v
Copyright (c) 1990-2008 Info-ZIP - Type 'zip "-L"' for software license.
This is Zip 3.0 (July 5th 2008), by Info-ZIP.
[C:\temp]zip -o aspirb10.zip
zip warning: unable to seek in input file aspirb10.zip
zip I/O error: A previous error has occurred on the stream.
zip error: Input file read failure (aspirb10.zip)

You might need the same version of ZIP, as were used to
originally zip the file.

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Allan.

It is better to close your mouth, and look like a fool,
than to open it, and remove all doubt.

Dave Yeo

2013-04-12 00:08:38 UTC

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Post by Allan

You might need the same version of ZIP, as were used to
originally zip the file.

You shouldn't unless they were compiled with different options and if
compiled with different options the error should be different.
Dave

Paul Ratcliffe

2013-04-12 01:29:57 UTC

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Post by Allan

You might need the same version of ZIP, as were used to
originally zip the file.

Don't be ridiculous. Of course you don't. That would be a horrendous
compatibility limitation.

Al Savage

2013-04-23 21:29:43 UTC

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Problem solved.
As it happens, there's a couple of different OS/2 ports of ZIP.exe that
are labelled v3.0

There's the version that ships with eCS 2.1
5-26-09 9:33p 276,548 ZIP.EXE
Compiled with IBM Visual Age C++ 4.30 for OS/2 2.x/3.x (32-bit) on May
26 2009.

Then there's the one that Paul Smedley ported:
http://download.smedley.info/zip30-os2-20100814.zip

8-13-10 6:11p 224,844 zip.exe

[C:\temp]zip -v
Copyright (c) 1990-2008 Info-ZIP - Type 'zip "-L"' for software license.
This is Zip 3.0 (July 5th 2008), by Info-ZIP.
Compiled with emx+gcc 4.4.4 for OS/2 2.x/3.x (32-bit) on Aug 14 2010.

This one works:

[C:\temp]zip -o g:\ftp\os2\aspirb10
{no text output}

And the ECSMT on eCS has an old v2.32 zip.exe in \TOOLS\ECSMT, just to
keep things interesting.

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Al S.

Mr. G

2013-04-23 23:24:38 UTC

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Post by Al Savage
Problem solved.
As it happens, there's a couple of different OS/2 ports of ZIP.exe that
are labelled v3.0
There's the version that ships with eCS 2.1
5-26-09 9:33p 276,548 ZIP.EXE
Compiled with IBM Visual Age C++ 4.30 for OS/2 2.x/3.x (32-bit) on May
26 2009.

http://download.smedley.info/zip30-os2-20100814.zip
8-13-10 6:11p 224,844 zip.exe
[C:\temp]zip -v
Copyright (c) 1990-2008 Info-ZIP - Type 'zip "-L"' for software license.
This is Zip 3.0 (July 5th 2008), by Info-ZIP.
Compiled with emx+gcc 4.4.4 for OS/2 2.x/3.x (32-bit) on Aug 14 2010.
[C:\temp]zip -o g:\ftp\os2\aspirb10
{no text output}
And the ECSMT on eCS has an old v2.32 zip.exe in \TOOLS\ECSMT, just to
keep things interesting.

And they charge how much for eCS?

Alex Taylor

2013-04-24 01:05:11 UTC

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Post by Al Savage
Problem solved.
As it happens, there's a couple of different OS/2 ports of ZIP.exe that
are labelled v3.0
There's the version that ships with eCS 2.1
5-26-09 9:33p 276,548 ZIP.EXE

eCS doesn't ship with zip 3.0. It's been using v2.31 all through the
current 2.2 beta. Are you sure you didn't install a version of 3.0 on
your system somewhere?

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Al Savage

2013-04-24 14:53:51 UTC

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On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 01:05:11 UTC, "Alex Taylor"

Post by Alex Taylor

Post by Al Savage
As it happens, there's a couple of different OS/2 ports of ZIP.exe that
are labelled v3.0
There's the version that ships with eCS 2.1
5-26-09 9:33p 276,548 ZIP.EXE

eCS doesn't ship with zip 3.0. It's been using v2.31 all through the
current 2.2 beta. Are you sure you didn't install a version of 3.0 on
your system somewhere?

If I installed ZIP 3.0, I'm reasonably certain that I didn't put it in
\ECS\BIN
But I suppose it's possible. I do have the VAC version pkg archived on
my server.

[later]
Hmmm, you're right: the eCS 2.1 shipped version of zip is 2.31. I must
have overwritten the \ECS\BIN zip with the VAC version at some point in
the last year. Sorry for spreading mis-information.

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Regards,
Al S.

Allan

2013-04-24 23:10:39 UTC

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Post by Al Savage
On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 01:05:11 UTC, "Alex Taylor"

Post by Alex Taylor

Post by Al Savage
As it happens, there's a couple of different OS/2 ports of ZIP.exe that
are labelled v3.0
There's the version that ships with eCS 2.1
5-26-09 9:33p 276,548 ZIP.EXE

eCS doesn't ship with zip 3.0. It's been using v2.31 all through the
current 2.2 beta. Are you sure you didn't install a version of 3.0 on
your system somewhere?

If I installed ZIP 3.0, I'm reasonably certain that I didn't put it in
\ECS\BIN
But I suppose it's possible. I do have the VAC version pkg archived on
my server.
[later]
Hmmm, you're right: the eCS 2.1 shipped version of zip is 2.31. I must
have overwritten the \ECS\BIN zip with the VAC version at some point in
the last year. Sorry for spreading mis-information.

The VAC version is most likely from Infozips ftp.
That version is useless, as it doesn't support files > 2GB

Pauls GCC or Mikes Watcom versions can use > 2GB files

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Allan.

It is better to close your mouth, and look like a fool,
than to open it, and remove all doubt.