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Message no. 1
From: Joshua Krage <jkrage@****.UMD.EDU>
Subject: Re: Zip Files
Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 00:15:37 -0400
A few people have mentioned problems unzipping files. While I havn't
tried any of the files that were mentioned, I've come across a similar
problem with other ones.

The basic problem is that the new files were created with a new version
of Zip, usually Pkzip 2.0, and the unzipping program only knows about
v1.0. Since the v1 program doesn't know that v2 even exists, it belches
with an obscure error message.

Maybe this helped...

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jkrage@****.umd.edu
Message no. 2
From: "Robert A. Hayden" <hayden@*******.MANKATO.MSUS.EDU>
Subject: Re: Zip Files
Date: Thu, 5 May 1994 23:26:21 -0500
On Fri, 6 May 1994, Joshua Krage wrote:

> The basic problem is that the new files were created with a new version
> of Zip, usually Pkzip 2.0, and the unzipping program only knows about
> v1.0. Since the v1 program doesn't know that v2 even exists, it belches
> with an obscure error message.

Note, I am not using pkzip, I am using hte version of unix. I don't know
the version number off hand, though.

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