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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: AmigaMance on December 26, 2006, 01:22:21 PM

Title: Previewing incomplete .ZIPs, possible on an Amiga?
Post by: AmigaMance on December 26, 2006, 01:22:21 PM

Hi.
 I want to ask if it's possible to preview an incomplete zip, using an Amiga. When the zip consists of many small files, this is not a problem. I load it in Voodoo-x (or any other GUI frontend for XAD) and i dearchive the files which are contained in this incomplete archive. But what if the zip is consisted by only one big file?? Voodoo-x doesn't let me to dearchive the beginning of this big file. Same goes for the UnZip command. :-/
 With RARs, this isn't a problem! I only have to issue the option -kb (keep broken) in the unrar command and that big file gets partially extracted. Is there a way to do the same with ZIPs?

PS: I can use AOS3 and MOS.

Title: Re: Previewing incomplete .ZIPs, possible on an Amiga?
Post by: Piru on December 26, 2006, 01:50:29 PM

ZIP format has the file structure (metadata) after the archived data. This explains why you can't access the file that is incomplete.

Title: Re: Previewing incomplete .ZIPs, possible on an Amiga?
Post by: AmigaMance on December 26, 2006, 03:13:46 PM

If i understood you correctly, you mean that the infos for each archived file, like its size etc, are attached at the END of it. That's bad... Zip format sucks. :-/  Thanks Piru.