Extraneous data after OSLib zips

[Tony van der Hoff]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, at 01:28:35, David Bryan
<D.J.Bryan at cranfield.ac.uk> wrote on the subject "Extraneous data after
OSLib zips":

>All the zip files for OSLib versions 5.51, 5.60 and 5.61 have
>extraneous data after the end of the zip file format.  The files
>must be wrong on the server, rather than there being a download
>problem, as the file sizes stated on the Web pages match the
>sizes of the files downloaded.  After stripping off the extra
>data, the file sizes for the OSLib 5.61 zips should be
>
>  oslib.zip        726774 bytes
>  oslibhelp.zip    419799 bytes
>  osllbsrc.zip     907696 bytes
>  oslibsupport.zip  52927 bytes
>
>I suggest that you look at the program which is used to produce
>the zip files.  At first I thought I might have wrecked the map on
>my 20GB E+ format hard disc ;-)
>
Thanks for this, David; you are quite correct.

A bit of a puzzle, this one. I use a TaskObey (!ReleaseLib) to build the
archive using SparkFS on my local (ADFS) disc. This archive is, as you
predict, 726774 bytes. 

The same TaskObey then copies this archive to my big NTFS disc (via
LanMan98), where arrives as a different size (for the 5.61 release it
was 1114112 bytes, currently it is appearing as 905216 bytes). 

If, however, I copy the archive manually to the same directory, it
arrives as the correct size. ISTR reading about this somewhere;
something about the file size not being up-to-date when the copy process
starts, but cannot remember what the solution was. Has anyone any
suggestions?
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