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echo: bbs_carnival
to: FLAVIO BESSA
from: DAN CLOUGH
date: 2020-03-30 07:59:00
subject: Re: MultiMail under Linux

-=> Flavio Bessa wrote to mark lewis <=-

 FB>> I am using the default zip/unzip commands at the .mmailrc
 FB>> file. Is that something that I need to change?

 ml> i have this in my .mmailrc... not sure if it is default or not... i've
 ml> not seen problems so far...

 ml> zipUncompressCommand: unzip -joLq
 ml> zipCompressCommand: zip -jkq

 FB>         Yeah, those are the defaults, they are the same I have
 FB> here.

 FB>         The error message I get is:

 FB> "End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file
 FB> is not a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part
 FB> archive. In the latter case the centra directory and zipfile
 FB> comment will be found on the last disk(s) of this archive."

Sounds like the QWK packet you are trying to open is not a ZIP 
file...  On the BBS you're getting the QWK packet from, go into 
the "packet configuration" menu and make sure the archive type is 
set to "ZIP".



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