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Repairing Corrupted ZIP Files by Brute Force Scanning in C

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Re: Repairing Corrupted ZIP Files by Brute Force Scanning in C

#13
post #7

I'mn afraid your blog post is almost completely unreadable in Chrome and Opera on Windows 7.

Seems ok in IE though. The page looks like it's a latex export.

Actually, it's just a standard WordPress blog using the Latin Modern Roman typeface, which is based upon Computer Modern, the default in [La]TeX.

(I dig the TeX-lookalike WP theme, but it should really use other @font-face formats for compatibility, e.g., WOFF and EOT; that might make it look better in other browsers.)

Re: Repairing Corrupted ZIP Files by Brute Force Scanning in C

#15
I'm surprised that zip -FF wouldn't work. Sounds like it needs your patch, although it looks from the InfoZip source that the fix functionality is spread throughout the zip parsing code rather than isolated into a small routine like this one.

What would be interesting is a utility that could fix archives uploaded via FTP with ASCII mode accidentally turned on. This page claims to have a method: http://bukys.com/services/recovery/examples/

Re: Repairing Corrupted ZIP Files by Brute Force Scanning in C

#19
post #17
post #7

I'mn afraid your blog post is almost completely unreadable in Chrome and Opera on Windows 7.

Would you post a screenshot of the blunder, please?

http://i.imgur.com/wU8df.png

And here I was thinking it was just me...

EDIT: It's that 'LM Roman' font. Remove it and it will be fixed.

Re: Repairing Corrupted ZIP Files by Brute Force Scanning in C

#20
post #11
post #7

I'mn afraid your blog post is almost completely unreadable in Chrome and Opera on Windows 7.

Just install the readbility firefox addon or go to: https://www.readability.com/read?url=http://blog.zx2c4.com/6...

He said Chrome, so a Firefox addon won't do him much good.
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