[ale] when is a zip file not a zip file

[Jeff Hubbs]

Windows users know not of what they do.  You need unrar.



Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> I'm stumped -- but then I often stump easily.
>
> My son-in-law just sent me some pix of my new grandson -- born on 
> Saturday morning.  He told me he zipped them on a Winbloze box before
> attaching them to an email.
>
> The email has this attachment:  New Folder.rar
>
> So I move it to a temp directory and from the command line type 
> "unzip Ne<tab> and get "unzip New\ Folder.rar"
>
> Tap the Enter key and unzip barfs telling me that this:
>
> "End-of-central-directory signature not found.  Either this file is not
>   a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive.  In the
>   latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
>   the last disk(s) of this archive.
> unzip:  cannot find zipfile directory in one of New Folder.rar or
>         New Folder.rar.zip, and cannot find New Folder.rar.ZIP, period."
>
> So is this a defective zip file or do I need a different program to unpack
> this thing?
>
> I really would like to see these pix of my new grandson.
>
> Sean
>
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