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Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 14:08:17 -0400
From: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org>
To: Ashok Shrestha <ashok.shrestha@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: checking zip file corruption
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On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 09:18:31AM -0400, Ashok Shrestha wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am writing code to check if incoming zip files are corrupt and the
> client is not willing to send a digest (like md5) of the file.

Why don't you just use InfoZip's "unzip -t" flag which tests
the integrity of a zip file?  You can call "unzip -t" from Perl.

InfoZip is in ports, archivers/unzip and archivers/zip.

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Craig Rodrigues        
rodrigc@crodrigues.org