Mercurial Module Delivered with Windows Installer

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Sun Apr 13 16:39:58 UTC 2008


On 13/04/2008, Mike Robinet <manan_01 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> The library.zip delivered with the Windows installer
> (http://mercurial.berkwood.com/) will not open for me.  It gives an
> "unexpected end of archive" in WinRAR and using the Windows zip utility says
> it is invalid or corrupted.

It's not a plain zipfile - it contains some added data at the start.
This is perfectly valid, in that the zip spec allows it, but some
Windows zip utilities complain (I know winzip does).

The Info-Zip command line utility handles it fine.

Paul.



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