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echo: locsysop
to: Rod Speed
from: Frank Malcolm
date: 1997-01-04 01:06:20
subject: OS/2 4.0

Hi, Rod.

RS> RS> Cant be that, doesnt explain the SAME CRC in the two files.
RS> RS> THAT indicates that whatever is doing the CRC sees all the
RS> RS> data fine, but it doesnt all get into the file created.

RS> FM> The 2 files were the *same* file.

RS> RS> The same INPUT file, sure, clearly not the same OUTPUT file tho,
RS> RS> the length was different. So the CRC should be different too.

RS> PE> zip calculates the CRC on the input data.

RS> I find that hard to believe. It complains about
RS> a damaged archive without having unzipped it first.

Nevertheless it does, no matter what you find hard to believe. There are
many causes of archive damage apart from a bad CRC.

Regards, fIM.

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