Uncrunching files with invalid characters - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

27 Jun 2006

Philip:

	I just tired this method and it works pretty well. All you have
to do is replace "/" with "-" and it extracts fine.

Rich 

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Subject: Re: Uncrunching files with invalid characters

Cini, Richard wrote:
...
              I'm working on re-archiving the CPMUG
ARKives into ZIP files
...
  and I've encountered a few files with filenames
containing invalid
 characters in DOS (primarily the "/" character). I can extract with
 wildcards but the de-archiver (arce40g) doesn't seem to allow renaming
 on extraction, so I can't extract and rename at the same time.
             Any idea on how do accomplish this? 
How about hexediting the ARK files, or writing a little program to go
through 
them, read in the filenames and make them DOS compatible?

I'd probably do the latter. I think the ARK format might be on 
<http://www.wotsit.org/>.

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