05 November 2001, 22:47 | #1 |
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CRC of The Zone doesn't match the one from WinZIP?
Hi,
since I'm a notorious non-believer ever since , I just checked if the CRC calculation on EAB was actually correct. I can't blatantly exclaim "it wasn't" for I don't know why it differs because I'd like to consider that the algorithm WinZIP uses for calculating might be a completely different one. I also checked with another CRC tool and the result was the same as the CRC calculated by WinZIP. This smells like a bug in the algorithm. RCK? //Edit: CRC's for current files on the zone: (<-WinZIP) Hell Run Machine (fixed) - 9da2b970 Cricket Captain - 12a4fde5 Last edited by andreas; 05 November 2001 at 23:02. |
06 November 2001, 00:00 | #2 |
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First of all, I know jack shit about CRC32's.
But maybe the CRC in the zone is of the zip file itself, not the ADF inside it. |
06 November 2001, 02:14 | #3 |
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Perhaps. But then it would really make no sense at all...
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06 November 2001, 03:34 | #4 |
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I would think that the CRC32 value should be in the contents of the zip, but what happens when a zip contains 4 adf's? Or an LHA or LZX or DMS Or (heaven forbid) ADZ?
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06 November 2001, 12:10 | #5 |
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Yep, the CRC32 of the zone is only for the file uploaded.
so if you upload one ADF, you will have his correct crc32, but if you upload a zip, you will have the zip crc32 @andreas: Yes I know, but my server won't start to unzip / unace each file to check his crc32 ! lol |
06 November 2001, 12:18 | #6 |
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wait wait,
I will look if I can unzipping files "on the fly" with php, and do crc32 operation in it... |
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okay, the fonctions for reading contents of zip (and then maybe check the CRC of the files) are not yet implemented in the stable version (4.0.6).
So I will have to wait the 4.1.0 one in order to code that |
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Re: CRC of The Zone doesn't match the one from WinZIP?
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06 November 2001, 14:36 | #9 |
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Well I blindly believe you that this is correct as it is.
But alas, the only way out is actually to wait for support of the inside-zip thing in PHP, BECAUSE otherwise everyone wanting to give others an occasion to check their CRC first (i. e. if he/she has this game version already or not) would have to upload the game in PLAIN ADF format, uncompressed, that is! And this would really be silly! I don't want to imagine how long it will take until the 50 MB disk space on the zone is exhausted. Argh. A loud and clear "no" from my point of view. |
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Yep I know.
I'll try to find another solution. |
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16 November 2001, 21:07 | #12 |
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euh...
cause I said it in another thread. you can see the amount of data at the very end of the zone page. |
16 November 2001, 22:13 | #13 |
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Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit :disgusted
During the EAB's update of this afternoon, I have lost the last version of "the zone"... The CRC calculation isn't working anymore. ok, it is not really important cause it was useless, but it's just boring me Well, I will re-code it when I will be able to read into the zip files "on the fly", and get the crc32 of the files. |
17 November 2001, 11:41 | #14 |
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Sounds good.
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