any good prog for archives testing

[Varthall]

You could try doing something like this, from the
root directory of your hard drive:

lzx -r t #?

which will test all the archives with an lzx or lha
suffix. The -r option makes the program enter all the subdirectories.

A note of warning: I've read from the faq of lzx -
http://xavprods.free.fr/lzx/index.html
- the following warning:

"The versions for 68020 and 68040 are not so reliable when you want to archive a lot of small files: you may have corrupted datas in the archive. But LZX won't report the bug during the archiving operation. It will report the bug in the test, or on an extraction operation.
Solution : use the 68000 version to archive your files if the 020 or 040 don't work."

So it looks like 0x0 versions have this major bug,
making these versions unreliable!!  :-o

Varthall

[Varthall]

lionstorm wrote:
thanks, I knew about the existance of the test argument of archivers. Problem is I have a lot of files (dms, zip, lha, lzx) in a lot of directories and dont want to check each file manually.

Well, with lzx you can at least test all the lzx and lha archives, and I believe that the same could be done with the command-line unzip, and maybe also dms has some test option. With the wildcards, you'd just have to type three times the commands and let the Amiga do all the checks.

I found on aminet checkX but it can not handle zip files. At the moment I am having serious problems with archives : download and test them is ok but transferring them to a zip disk then on my amiga and test them again, they are corrupted. Funny thing is that if I copy them within the WB (3.9) archives are ok, but within dopus magellan, I got corrupted files !??

So, if I understand well, the files on the zip disk are still ok? Could be that Magellan uses an older unarchiver that the one you use under workbench, which can't handle correctly the archives?

Varthall