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Re: Password protected Win32lib zip file?

• Posted by Andy Drummond <andy at ?estreltele.com> Dec 06, 2007
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> CChris wrote:
>
> I still don't have internet at home, but the computer is working, so I could
> check a couple things:
> 1/ the compression rate is slightly above median, but certainly not maximum.
> So Andy's tip may not be relevant, unless it applies to a whole range of
> compression
> rates.
> 2/ I just downloaded the 70.2c zip file on my ofice computer (WinXP Pro). I
> had created it on my home machine, which is obviously different and doesn't
> have WinZip.
> When I open the file, I get a comment window, which I close, and then the
> contents
> are properly displayed and extracted on request by WinZip v8.1 SR2 (5791f).
> Could the auto comment mess anything up?
> 3/ I can remember the following. About 1 year ago, the first time I sent a
> modified
> version of the lib to Judith for testing (it was called 0.60.C at the time),
> she had a password issue, then emailed me that she could properly unzip, and
> doesn't seem to have experienced the problem ever since. So you just may have
> the key to this issue and forgotten about it...
> 4/ I have sent quite a few zip files to various people over the years, and,
> apart from Judith in 3/ above, everyone could read and extract the files. /me
> Scratch head.
> 
> CChris

CChris,
I had the problem a while ago whereby if I opened a Win23Lib zip file using XP's
belief that it was a compressed folder, it asked for a password for advanc.ew.
If I used WinZip - and probably any other normal unzipper - it didn't ask for
passwords and unzipped peacably.
Recently I have had WinZip offering a comment, which, as you say, you just say
OK to and then it works normally.  
I have just tried the XP compressed folder unzipping; you can look at files with
no worries - it all looks hunky-dory.  Then I say Extract All and I get the 
password request again. It is very strange. It is XP, though, after all. I did
this on win32lib_0_70_20.zip which looks like it was the latest offering.
So this is odd, nay, weird. But not insurmountable.