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gordon451
OK. I assume you're still using W98. The only thing I can think of is either:
- omni has not been (re)compressed properly, maybe UTF-8/Unicode vs ANSI, or
- ¡W98 is not UTF-8/Unicode aware?
I've just downloaded PeaZip 5.5.0x64, it opened omni.ja like a sardine-can.
You assume right 98 is siria's favorite. Starts fast, robust..., but not supported by mdern MS compilers, so only a limited number of projects that use old compilers can support 98.
The decompress files are ok. But only Mozilla tools (re)compress to a jar type that has the content info at the beginning not at the end of an archive.
It has nothing to do with UTF8, which is a format for files containing text or XUL, JS etc., thus files that must carry/contain letters that are not ASCII or ANSI, or must work together with files that are not ASCII or ANSI. These must be saved by the text/program editor as UTF8. kmm, kml, all code files and language files in chrome plus configurating *.js files for the km project are UTF8.
98 is not aware of UTF8 by default. 98 can read unicode when
unicows.dll or similar is present and the program supports these.
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wikipedia
By adding the UNICOWS.LIB to the link command-line before KERNEL32.LIB, ADVAPI32.LIB, or any other supported Win32 system link library, the linker will resolve referenced symbols with the one provided by UNICOWS.LIB instead.
The MS UTF8 for WIN95-98 project, called Godot (
Waiting for Goddot), fruited in summer 2001, well after the peek of 98 usage.
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siria
Peazip too: Cannot open as archive
info-zip: Yeah funny, no one seems to know it :cool:
Have already tried 2-3 versions, but same result with all. I do suspect the extracted files might be correct despite the error, but when I'll really need it for a serious task some day I'd probably try the vista version.
Complaint/ERROR MESSAGE does not matter. Only that it gets extracted counts.
The complaint is usually files found after end of archive. Reason different location of content tables. See above.
Recompressed files did sometimes not work for some time - but this problem is solved now AFAik. But the files are loaded less fast by K-Meleon/FF etc.
You may need Vista for the Mozilla tool chain "mozilla-build".
But info-zip/FUNZIP which is the part that You may need to compress will run on 98.
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Readme.nt
UnZip 5.52 distribution archive for Win9x/NT/2K/XP/2K3
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The program executables were compiled with MS Visual C++ 6.0 SP6 (MSC v12.00),
using the win32/Makefile as supplied in the UnZip 5.52 source distribution
(with support for ASM_CRC enabled). Additionally, the sfx stubs have been
compressed by the free exe packer UPX 1.25.
The alternative unzipsfx-gcc.exe and SFXWiz32-gcc.exe stubs were compiled
by gcc 3.2 using the mingw32 environment. These stubs are significantly
smaller, but require the presence of the "msvcrt.dll" C runtime DLL.
Normally, this should not be a problem, since this dll is supplied as part
of the operating system core for Win2k/XP/2K3 and Windows 98/Me. Older Windows
systems (Win95/NT4) support this runtime DLL when Internet Explorer 4.0 (or
newer) is installed. The dll is not supplied in a Win32s environment, but
this should be a minor problem. (For the text-mode stub this is not a
problem at all; Win32s cannot be used to run text-mode applications, anyway.)
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 10/26/2014 11:43AM by guenter.