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Old 03-16-2004, 07:51 PM  
FTPServerTools
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There are multiple reasons for that. First there is zipclean, if people use that then the purge.txt file from that is easy to use to remove junk from the zips. Second a keeplist might be handy if one insists on keeping certain files in there. Third the autocleaninf of useless nfo's doesnt even need any skiplist or keeplist. It works all by itself.
Some zipfiles are in a bad format because some tool (dont ask me which I dont know) doesnt adhere to the zip standard.
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Such a zipfile looks like (tech talk coming up....):
local file header
local file header
...
central directory header
central directory header
..
end of central directory
central directory header
central directory header
..
end of central directory

Now this is absolutely incorrect. pkunzip will for example immediately yell the file is bad. The solution is easy, cut off the junk and voila no more odd screwy non standard zip....
I think it is probably some nux tool.
A proper zip ends after the zip comment after the first end of central directory...
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