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From: Jan
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Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 22:45:16 +0200
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On 2014-04-25 17:08:27 +0000, EngineeringGuy <EngineeringGuy@nowhere.com> said:
> Could someone please give me some guidance on unzipping and putting
> Psychopath posts back together.. My older version (V9.5) of WinZip doesn't
> seem to work well at all.. Do I need a newer version, or some other archive
> program to do the job?
>
> Thanks Much for the help.
It is one of the most perverse encoding schemes ever invented.
(Ten years to Siberia would be too mild a puishment for the sadist who
invented it)
First you expand all the zips, to folders containing three files each.
Then you combine all the fiels in all the folders into one folder.
(overwriting files with identical names)
That give you segments of a .rar file, named .rar .roo .ro1 ….,
a .nfo file, and a file_id.diz file that can be trashed.
You expand the segmented .rar file by feeding the .rar file to an unrar
utility.
This yielsd the original file.
Psychopath however has added a further perversion:
The original filename with title and author has been replaced by random junk..
You have to look them up in the accompanying .nfo file,
and copy/paste them back to fully recover the original file.
(perhaps removing some spurious extra chars and returns on the way)
In all, it is a lot of work both on the sending and receiving side,
it wastes processor cyles (who cares about the planet?)
and it usually increases the total file size to be sent.
The why of all those unnecessary troubles is someting that psychopath
doesn't care to explain.
Jan
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