From: Robert Evans <robert.evans@...>
Date: 2005-10-01T01:56:30+09:00
Subject: Re: rubyzip problem with local header magic

Hi Thomas,

Thanks for the tip, and thanks again for writing rubyzip. I'm not 
inconvenienced at all :-)

Bob Evans


On Sep 30, 2005, at 12:51 AM, Thomas Sondergaard wrote:

> Robert Evans 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.
>
> I think the problem is that ZipInputStream is slightly broken - it 
> does not support ZipFiles created with DataDescriptors trailing each 
> entry. It should be very simple to fix, but I don't have time for it 
> now. If this is indeed the problem it can be circumvented by using the 
> ZipFile class, which reads the zip central directory structure, and 
> use that to iterate through the entries.
>
> Sorry for the inconvenience
>
> Thomas
>