ZIP problems
Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2013 2:08 pm
I just spent a while scratching my head as to why ZIP on the QL was struggling to zip up the disk for Return To Eden.
It kept saying things like BRIDGE_1_COMP file name not matched.
I tried a different tack - I copied all of the files which ZIP on the QL could not move into the zip file, and then placed them into a Windows folder on my hard disk. I was surprised that Bitzipper on the PC also failed to add these files to the .zip file
It took me a while to realise the problem was that the QL files all ended in _COMP - the zip programs could not cope with this for some unknown reason. Even more oddly, is that if I rename the files to end in .COMP (eg. BRIDGE_1.COMP), then zip will add them to the archive without any issues.
Odd - because RTE_exe gets stored in the zip file as RTE.exe, so I don't see the difference (apart from _COMP having a four letter extension).
It kept saying things like BRIDGE_1_COMP file name not matched.
I tried a different tack - I copied all of the files which ZIP on the QL could not move into the zip file, and then placed them into a Windows folder on my hard disk. I was surprised that Bitzipper on the PC also failed to add these files to the .zip file
It took me a while to realise the problem was that the QL files all ended in _COMP - the zip programs could not cope with this for some unknown reason. Even more oddly, is that if I rename the files to end in .COMP (eg. BRIDGE_1.COMP), then zip will add them to the archive without any issues.
Odd - because RTE_exe gets stored in the zip file as RTE.exe, so I don't see the difference (apart from _COMP having a four letter extension).
I'll check it out!