[Info-vax] VAX kit availability?

[Dan Cross]

In article <1969de65-e1f8-444e-b902-50f75289152bn at googlegroups.com>,
Steven Schweda  <sms.antinode at gmail.com> wrote:
>> warning [VAXVMS073.ZIP]: 909878 extra bytes at beginning or within zipfile
>
>   That's usually a sign of a (poorly constructed) self-extracting
>archive, in which case it should be harmless.
>
>> error: not enough memory for bomb detection
>
>   That looks like a message from some code which a fellow wrote to save
>UnZip (6.0) from a particular problem in a (malicious) zip archive which
>can generate a very large output from a harmlessly-small-looking archive.
>
>   I believe that some GNU/Linux distributions (Debian?) may have
>incorporated that code in their UnZip programs.  I haven't looked at
>that stuff for a while, but I'd expect there to be an option to disable
>the check, which might be the only problem.
>
>   Worst case, fetch an unmodified UnZip 6.0 kit, build that, and use
>it.
>
>      https://sourceforge.net/projects/infozip/files/UnZip%206.x%20%28latest%29/UnZip%206.0/
>
>   Of course, it's also possible that your archive is corrupt.
>

Thanks; I pulled down the version of UnZip you mentioned, built
it, and ran it but got (largely) the same errors.  It DID produce
a 128KiB output file, but that seems wrong.

I'll keep poking, but at this point, it looks like I got a bad
archive from HP a few years back. :-(

	- Dan C.