I tried fixgz, I even started rewriting the program to try and brute force
it. I like the idea of the second post, but I can find the program/source
on it...
Eric
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 7:20 AM, Stephen <
cryptworks@gmail.com> wrote:
> i have found a couple of links
>
> http://www.gzip.org/ has a reference to fixgz and how to compile it.
>
> also comes up as having solved it
> http://www.info-zip.org/board/board.pl?m-1242984565/
>
> not sure if you have tried those or not.
>
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 11:16 PM, Eric Cope <eric.cope@gmail.com> wrote:
> > It didn't help. I edited the program (Open Source is awesome!) to count
> the
> > \r's and the \n's, there were 10679 missing bytes. I counted 10755
> newline
> > characters. I replaced the first 10679 newlines with \r\n, but it still
> > couldn't find the directory... "start of central directory not found"
> >
> > If the error took place during FTP, then it should be correctable, right?
> > Any ideas on what other characters are affected by ASCII FTP transfer?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Eric
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Jason Holtzapple <ml@bitflip.net>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 08/30/2010 06:51 PM, Eric Cope wrote:
> >> > I transferred a zip file off of an infected Windows machine via FTP.
> >> > That file was determined to be corrupt (after I wiped the drive of
> >> > course). I suspect the corruption took place because I transferred the
> >> > file using ASCII mode, not binary mode. Is there anyway to "repair" a
> >> > zip file, like search and replacing the "\n" with a "\r\n" or some
> other
> >> > tool, Linux based or otherwise?
> >>
> >> The fixgz program does exactly that.
> >>
> >>
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