Subj : Re: Can't open packet w/MMail
To   : MAX CHAMBERLAIN
From : William McBrine
Date : Sat Aug 05 2000 11:00 am

-=> MAX CHAMBERLAIN wrote to ALL <=-

 MC> [Packet type not recognized]
 MC> zipUncompressCommand: c:\Program Files\mmdos37\pkunzip -o
 MC> zipCompressCommand: c:\Program Files\mmdos37\pkzip

Hmm... Dunno, but the use of long (VFAT) filenames like "Program Files"
suggests a possibility. What version of PKZIP are you using, and what is
the path to the packets? PKZIP 2.04g, which is (regrettably) still
widespread, predates VFAT and doesn't understand the long filenames. I
believe PKZIP 2.50 and later do understand them, but I'm not certain. In
any case, I personally recommend using InfoZip instead of PKZIP.

 MC> One thing I am wondering about is how does mmail know that pkzip and
 MC> pkunzip are the compression/umcompression utilities to execute (as
 MC> opposed to arj, for example).

It checks the first few bytes of the file -- each format puts a unique
signature there. Every ZIP file, for instance, starts out with "PK".
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