Required file not found in the archive.

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mdruiter
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Required file not found in the archive.

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Try to open the attached archive:
nothing.gz
A gzip file containing an empty stream
(20 Bytes) Downloaded 417 times
The TAR Plugin gives the error "Required file not found in the archive."
That is because the (non-named) gzip file (stream) happens to be empty. Why wouldn't that be allowed? I think the archive is perfectly valid.
Other tools like gunzip do not complain.
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Re: Required file not found in the archive.

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(When I first looked, I thought your .gz was corrupt as there seemed to be nothing, but then I realized there was nothing ;-).)
[At first I thought I remembered something about nothing, but now I'm thinking it was either in a .tar or .gz or similar, where the file size was [incorrectly] displaying as 0 bytes, so I was thinking of something, not nothing, else.]

Anyhow, 7-zip & gzip both unpack nothing successfully.
Salamander farts.


(Maybe my "At first" is related, cause if I change the size of nothing from 0 to 1 byte, then gzip it, Salamander does see it correctly, but reports its size as 0 rather then 1.

"At first": Beta4 can not unpack *.gz.

Maybe its an issue with the file being 0-bytes?)
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Re: Required file not found in the archive.

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The TAR Plugin always reports the size as 0 bytes. I'm afraid this is due to the nature of the gzip format where finding out the size almost requires decompression...

And sure the issue is that the content is zero bytes. But there is no reason to trip over that.
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