Re: More adventures in game crunching...

Martin Doherty wrote: 

Hmm.

Results with various archivers (under Ecks-Pee) on the gzip files:

Winzip: "Invalid Archive Directory"
inRAR: "The archive is either in unknown format or damaged."
Win-GZ: treats the file as uncompressed data and tries to compress it
- does not recognize that it's a gzip file.
gunzip for MS-DOS: "gunzip: crunch1.dsk.gz: not in gzip format"

What am I missing here? 


Is the file size 119,675 bytes?

-uso.

My findings (using winzip 8.0 on Windoze 2000):
Winzip was able to successfully open each zipped file into its window for viewing the contents. I had problems extracting some of the .dsk images but not others (using drag and drop from Winzip window to Explorer window).

crunch1.dsk.gz ... 119,675 bytes ... Path=*c:*\Apache\Apache\htdocs\crunch\
.... FAILED: "Could not create C:\Temp\*c:* - aborting extract operation." <<== NOTE problem with c: in path

crunch2.dsk.gz ... 113,728 bytes ... Path=c:\Apache\Apache\htdocs\crunch\
.... FAILED: "Could not create C:\Temp\c: - aborting extract operation." <<== NOTE problem with c: in path

crunch3.dsk.gz  ...  111,935 bytes  ...  Path=\Apache\Apache\htdocs\crunch\
.... SUCCEEDED     <<== NOTE there was no c: in path

crunch4.dsk.gz ... 113,269 bytes ... Path=c:\Apache\Apache\htdocs\crunch\
.... FAILED: "Could not create C:\Temp\c: - aborting extract operation." <<== NOTE problem with c: in path

crunch5.dsk.gz  ...  119,173 bytes  ...  Path=
.... SUCCEEDED     <<== NOTE path was blank

crunch6.dsk.gz ... 115,794 bytes ... Path=c:\Apache\Apache\htdocs\crunch\
.... FAILED: "Could not create C:\Temp\c: - aborting extract operation." <<== NOTE problem with c: in path

So they are definitely all zipped files ( < 143,360 bytes), not disk images with a misleading .gz file extension. The drag-and-drop extraction apparently tried to append the original path to my temp directory path, creating a syntax error.

When I used the 'Extract' toolbar button and made sure 'Use folder names' was unchecked, all the disk images extracted nicely. I can see I'm going to be playing games for the next several hours. 

When I did a "Save target as..." in MSIE 6, the files were automatically
extracted and saved without directory info, but the file names were left
intact, including the now-misleading .gz on the end.  Removing the .gz
left me with perfect .dsk images.

This the first time I have observed a "transparent" extraction during
a "Save target as..." download.  Frankly, I'm surprised and annoyed
at this un-asked-for "helpfulness".  It must have something to do with
the MIME-type associations...  ??

-michael

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