mscompress creates files with wrong header on amd64
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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mscompress (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
When I compress a file with mscompress on Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS amd64, the compressed file is indeed created with "_" appended to the file name; but when I try to decompress that file with msexpand I get the following error message: "This is not a MS-compressed file" -- and the file is expanded correctly. A file command on the compressed item returns only "data", whereas it should be "MS Compress archive data".
I tried with an Ubuntu 10.04.3 i386 LiveCD with which the file command returned the correct answer and msexpand didn't return any error messages, so it's probably an architecture problem. Many thanks to Stefan Handschuh, the developer of jAOLT, who advised to use the file command and suggested that the header could be incorrect.
A terminal output would probably be more explanatory:
zapman@
mscompress version 0.3 (yellow) Mar 7 2010
zapman@
zapman@
TODO.txt TODO.txt_
zapman@
TODO.txt_: data
zapman@
zapman@
TODO.txt_: This is not a MS-compressed file
zapman@
TODO.txt TODO.txt_
You can see the reply of the file command which should have been "MS Compress archive data" instead of just "data", and the error message from msexpand which says "This is not a MS-compressed file" and which shouldn't have appeared.
Additional information: lsb_release -rd returns:
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS
Release: 10.04
uname -a returns:
Linux ubuntu 2.6.32-38-generic #83-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jan 4 11:12:07 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux
apt-cache policy mscompress returns:
mscompress:
Installed: 0.3-3build1
Candidate: 0.3-3build1
Version table:
*** 0.3-3build1 0
500 ftp://ftp.
100 /var/lib/
PS: You may also want to take a look at the Debian bug n° 600549 for this package on <http://
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: mscompress 0.3-3build1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-38-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 3b8b1e94677feb8
CheckboxSystem: 4ed15c40009aa6f
Date: Thu Feb 16 11:00:48 2012
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=
LANG=en_AU.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: mscompress
Changed in mscompress (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.