From: Katarina WONG <k.wong@...>
Date: 2005-09-30T07:18:29+09:00
Subject: Re: rubyzip problem with local header magic

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 20:20:21 +0200, Robert Evans <robert.evans@acm.org>  
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was using the rubyzip library (v0.5.12 on OS X 10.4) to read some zips  
> created by Java's ZipOutputStream (Java 1.5) classes.
>
> The zip can be completely read by every tool out there, except rubyzip.  
> rubyzip reads the first zip_entry just fine, but then raises an error  
> with the message "local header magic not found."

I have experienced the same kind of trouble with ZIP files from various
sources (archivers), now I seem to have found an approach compatible with
all the ZIPs I could find. (Not tried any ZIP created by MacOS though)

Can you post here a small ZIP file created by JAVA, I will have a look ?


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Katarina