internal zip is broken or creates bad files

[seb]

http://cd.textfiles.com/cream/cream03/games/dotso.zip

this is a zip file including a comment

now delete all files from there

the resulting empty zip (including the comment) cannot be entered with total commander

im using wine, perhaps some windows users can check this behaviour ))

[petermad]

I can confirm the behaviour under Windows XP SP3.

The file must be packed with some exotic zip-packer. I can delete everything down to 1 file, but not to 0 files.

[seb]

i just tested that with a self-created file.
i was using Info-ZIP - Zip 3.0 (July 5th 2008).
same problem...

please test with a self created file
create a new archive.
add one file to the archive
add comment to the archive (not the file inside!)

i doubt its a problem of the format, since i guess TC rewrites that when deleting (all) files from the archive.

[petermad]

I just tried it using TC's own zip packer - packed a file, gave the zip file a comment and deleted the file from the zip archive, no problems. I can enter the empty zip file without any problems.

I tried both with files.bbs and with descript.ion as comment files in TC. But maybe you are talking about a comment that your zip-packer provides???

i doubt its a problem of the format, since i guess TC rewrites that when deleting (all) files from the archive.

Maybe TC doesn't rewrite all of the file. If I make such and empty file with TC - it is 22 bytes, the file of yours (dotso.zip) is 144 bytes when emptied - and it contains a hidden comment (not a file):

From Cream of the Crop 3 cd rom 205-824-2552 Description: Connect the Dots With New Twist to Classic Game. Ega/Vga

- TC apparently doesn't support that for empty files.

If embeded comments is a zip standard, then there is a bug in TC - if it propritary, then you can't blame for not supporting it.

[seb]

http://www.pkware.com/documents/casestudies/APPNOTE.TXT

yeah the comment is from the standard and according to the changelog its not a newer feature

anyway TC handles these comments correct if you delete some files from the archives

it just throws up if you delete all files from the archive

[ghisler(Author)]

Indeed Total Commander does NOT support empty archives with a comment, only empty archives without a comment, or non-empty archives with a comment. Currently there are no plans to support empty archives with a comment.

[seb]

just stumbled over this "problem" again.
i know it's not a common case but perhaps it's really not such a hard thing to "fix" / add support for?!

[Horst.Epp]

just stumbled over this "problem" again.
i know it's not a common case but perhaps it's really not such a hard thing to "fix" / add support for?!

This may be done if there are no more other errors or problems at all in TC.
Thats wasting time for useless cases.