Andy McFadden wrote:
> Michael J. Mahon  wrote:
>>> In summary, even though nublib2 recognizes the file type info for .BNY
>>> files, and thus is seemingly capable of preserving this
information in the
>>> files it writes, it does not.
>> I've never used nulib to extract files from a .BNY archive, only from
>> ShrinkIt archives (with or without wrapper), so I was unaware that it
>> did not preserve the .BNY file info.
> 
> The actual problem is that ProTERM appears to be prepending the 128-byte
> BNY header but not padding the file to a 128-byte boundary.  The code in
> NuLib2 is failing because it gets a short read, and then neglects to
> remove the partially-written file.  So you end up with an almost-complete
> file that doesn't have the file attributes set.
> 
> This doesn't affect wrapped ShrinkIt BXY archives, because those are handled
> by a completely different piece of code.

Sounds like a "to do" item for ProTerm when it becomes available.  ;-)

-michael

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