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    From Dave@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 29 11:48:48 2024
    Good day folks.
    I know I've asked about this in the past, but the subject of "Password protected zip archives in RISC OS" has again raises its annoying head...

    I was wondering if there's been any progress since I last enquired, as non
    of the various app I have will do the business.

    ZipEE
    !p7zip with front ends.
    Infozip
    IZipper

    Nor the usual...
    SparkFS
    Etc.

    Thanks
    Dave

    There's a test zip archive at:

    http://www.triffid.co.uk/dstuff/Tester01.zip

    The zip archive is: "Tester01" it contains three test text files.

    The password is "test!" (Sans quotes).

    Any useful thoughts appreciated. :-)
    Thanks

    Dave

    Obviously no problem Win PC side with 7-Zip and PKZip.

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  • From Chris Hughes@21:1/5 to Dave on Mon Jan 29 12:15:23 2024
    In message <[email protected]>
    Dave <[email protected]> wrote:


    Good day folks.
    I know I've asked about this in the past, but the subject of "Password protected zip archives in RISC OS" has again raises its annoying head...

    I was wondering if there's been any progress since I last enquired, as non
    of the various app I have will do the business.

    ZipEE
    !p7zip with front ends.
    Infozip
    IZipper

    Nor the usual...
    SparkFS
    Etc.

    Thanks
    Dave

    There's a test zip archive at:

    http://www.triffid.co.uk/dstuff/Tester01.zip

    The zip archive is: "Tester01" it contains three test text files.

    The password is "test!" (Sans quotes).

    I have just downloaded your test zip and opened it without using a
    password with SparkFS 1.55

    But I now assume its the files within that are password protected not the
    zip itself.

    I found if you dragged one of the txt file back onto the SparkFS icon you
    get offered a number of 'Save As' options. Have you tried any of these?

    Otherwise maybe it needs raising with ROOL as a possible new option in
    SparkFS for the future.

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    Chris Hughes

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  • From Dave@21:1/5 to Chris Hughes on Mon Jan 29 18:56:04 2024
    In article <9057502a5b.chris@mytardis>,
    Chris Hughes <[email protected]> wrote:
    In message <[email protected]>
    Dave <[email protected]> wrote:


    Good day folks.
    I know I've asked about this in the past, but the subject of "Password protected zip archives in RISC OS" has again raises its annoying head...

    I was wondering if there's been any progress since I last enquired, as non of the various app I have will do the business.

    ZipEE
    !p7zip with front ends.
    Infozip
    IZipper

    Nor the usual...
    SparkFS
    Etc.

    Thanks
    Dave

    There's a test zip archive at:

    http://www.triffid.co.uk/dstuff/Tester01.zip

    The zip archive is: "Tester01" it contains three test text files.

    The password is "test!" (Sans quotes).

    I have just downloaded your test zip and opened it without using a
    password with SparkFS 1.55

    But I now assume its the files within that are password protected not
    the zip itself.

    I found if you dragged one of the txt file back onto the SparkFS icon
    you get offered a number of 'Save As' options. Have you tried any of
    these?

    Otherwise maybe it needs raising with ROOL as a possible new option in SparkFS for the future.

    Chris, That is very interesting...

    Yes the files withinn the archive are protected.

    Here my SparkFS 1.46 doesn't do what you describe... Nothing I have on
    RISC OS will access the text files.

    I do have a test beta app IZipper (Not my app) which was created to work
    with password protected Zip archives, and even that won't do the business.

    Any Idea where SparkFS 1.55 is avilable from?

    Thanks
    Dave

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  • From Dave@21:1/5 to Dave on Mon Jan 29 19:30:53 2024
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Dave <[email protected]> wrote:
    In article <9057502a5b.chris@mytardis>,
    Chris Hughes <[email protected]> wrote:

    [Snip]

    I have just downloaded your test zip and opened it without using a
    password with SparkFS 1.55

    But I now assume its the files within that are password protected not
    the zip itself.

    I found if you dragged one of the txt file back onto the SparkFS icon
    you get offered a number of 'Save As' options. Have you tried any of
    these?

    Otherwise maybe it needs raising with ROOL as a possible new option in SparkFS for the future.

    Chris, That is very interesting...

    Yes the files withinn the archive are protected.

    Here my SparkFS 1.46 doesn't do what you describe... Nothing I have on
    RISC OS will access the text files.

    I do have a test beta app IZipper (Not my app) which was created to work
    with password protected Zip archives, and even that won't do the
    business.

    Any Idea where SparkFS 1.55 is avilable from?

    Thanks
    Dave

    I downloaded 1.55 from the ROOL site and installed it.

    It will open the archive as expected, but will not do the business with
    the protected text files within.

    "Unsupported compression method"

    Dave

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  • From Steve Fryatt@21:1/5 to Dave on Mon Jan 29 19:34:38 2024
    On 29 Jan, Dave wrote in message
    <[email protected]>:

    Any Idea where SparkFS 1.55 is avilable from?

    It's part of the RISC OS 5 disc image, isn't it?

    --
    Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England

    http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to Dave on Mon Jan 29 21:09:36 2024
    In message <[email protected]>
    Dave <[email protected]> wrote:
    Good day folks.

    "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog."
    ...
    "Well did... The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. Really."

    P7zip would appear to be the encoding format.
    PS: I did extract it on RiscOS

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    Regards,
    Terry

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  • From Dave@21:1/5 to Dave on Mon Jan 29 20:18:32 2024
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Dave <[email protected]> wrote:
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Dave <[email protected]> wrote:
    In article <9057502a5b.chris@mytardis>,
    Chris Hughes <[email protected]> wrote:

    [Snip]

    I have just downloaded your test zip and opened it without using a password with SparkFS 1.55

    But I now assume its the files within that are password protected not
    the zip itself.

    I found if you dragged one of the txt file back onto the SparkFS icon
    you get offered a number of 'Save As' options. Have you tried any of these?

    Otherwise maybe it needs raising with ROOL as a possible new option
    in SparkFS for the future.

    Chris, That is very interesting...

    Yes the files withinn the archive are protected.

    Here my SparkFS 1.46 doesn't do what you describe... Nothing I have on
    RISC OS will access the text files.

    I do have a test beta app IZipper (Not my app) which was created to
    work with password protected Zip archives, and even that won't do the business.

    Any Idea where SparkFS 1.55 is avilable from?

    Thanks
    Dave

    I downloaded 1.55 from the ROOL site and installed it.

    It will open the archive as expected, but will not do the business with
    the protected text files within.

    "Unsupported compression method"

    Dave

    Chris, I'm assuming then, you didn't get to see what's in the text files?

    :-)

    Dave

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    Dave Triffid

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  • From Dave@21:1/5 to Steve Fryatt on Mon Jan 29 20:21:19 2024
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Steve Fryatt <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 29 Jan, Dave wrote in message
    <[email protected]>:

    Any Idea where SparkFS 1.55 is avilable from?

    It's part of the RISC OS 5 disc image, isn't it?

    It's also available as a self extracting file from the Download site.

    "SparkFS/1/55/util"

    Dave

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    Dave Triffid

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  • From Harriet Bazley@21:1/5 to Dave on Mon Jan 29 21:50:03 2024
    On 29 Jan 2024 as I do recall,
    Dave wrote:

    [snip]


    There's a test zip archive at:

    http://www.triffid.co.uk/dstuff/Tester01.zip

    The zip archive is: "Tester01" it contains three test text files.

    The password is "test!" (Sans quotes).


    Unzip 6.00 reports "need PK compat. v5.1 (can do v2.1)"
    It can list the file contents of the archive, but not extract them, even
    using the '-P password' option.


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    Laugh, and the world ignores you. Crying doesn't help either.

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 29 22:55:50 2024
    In Nachricht <[email protected]>
    [email protected] haben Sie geschrieben:

    In message <[email protected]>
    Dave <[email protected]> wrote:
    Good day folks.

    "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog."
    ...
    "Well did... The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. Really."

    P7zip would appear to be the encoding format.
    PS: I did extract it on RiscOS

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    Regards,
    Terry

    Can confirm that, p7zip (commandline-tool) is your choice. Consider to
    type Tester01.zip in the commandline, instead of Tester01/zip.
    So if you are in the same Dir as Tester01/zip, type at the CLI:
    *7za x Tester01.zip
    Enter password:
    will work :-) (p7zip Version 9.2 here).


    Greetings,
    Juergen

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  • From Dave@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Mon Jan 29 21:26:42 2024
    In article <[email protected]>,
    <[email protected]> wrote:
    In message <[email protected]>
    Dave <[email protected]> wrote:
    Good day folks.

    "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog."
    ...
    "Well did... The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. Really."

    P7zip would appear to be the encoding format.
    PS: I did extract it on RiscOS

    Correct... And interesting Terry,
    I have version 1.10 of Izipper but I can't get it to open the archive and display the contents here on my RISC OS 6.20

    Dave

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  • From Chris Hughes@21:1/5 to Dave on Mon Jan 29 22:47:09 2024
    In message <[email protected]>
    Dave <[email protected]> wrote:

    In article <[email protected]>,
    Dave <[email protected]> wrote:
    In article <9057502a5b.chris@mytardis>,
    Chris Hughes <[email protected]> wrote:

    [Snip]

    I have just downloaded your test zip and opened it without using a
    password with SparkFS 1.55

    But I now assume its the files within that are password protected not
    the zip itself.

    I found if you dragged one of the txt file back onto the SparkFS icon
    you get offered a number of 'Save As' options. Have you tried any of
    these?

    Otherwise maybe it needs raising with ROOL as a possible new option in
    SparkFS for the future.

    Chris, That is very interesting...

    Yes the files withinn the archive are protected.

    Here my SparkFS 1.46 doesn't do what you describe... Nothing I have on
    RISC OS will access the text files.

    I do have a test beta app IZipper (Not my app) which was created to work
    with password protected Zip archives, and even that won't do the
    business.

    Any Idea where SparkFS 1.55 is avilable from?

    Thanks
    Dave

    I downloaded 1.55 from the ROOL site and installed it.

    It will open the archive as expected, but will not do the business with
    the protected text files within.

    "Unsupported compression method"

    Did you drag the txt file from within the zip file on to the SparkFS icon,
    you should have been offered a variety of types to re save as. My quick
    test seems to allow me to save them in the other formats I only tried 2
    GZip and UUencode. But I did not have Gzip on my machine to test any
    further.





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  • From Chris Hughes@21:1/5 to Steve Fryatt on Mon Jan 29 22:48:08 2024
    In message <[email protected]>
    Steve Fryatt <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 29 Jan, Dave wrote in message
    <[email protected]>:

    Any Idea where SparkFS 1.55 is avilable from?

    It's part of the RISC OS 5 disc image, isn't it?

    I got it via Packman, as ROOL seem to now be looking after it.

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    Chris Hughes

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  • From Alan Griffin@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Tue Jan 30 11:00:03 2024
    In article <9057502a5b.chris@mytardis>, Chris Hughes
    <[email protected]> wrote:
    I found if you dragged one of the txt file back onto the SparkFS icon
    you get offered a number of 'Save As' options. Have you tried any of
    these?

    If you drag it into Impression, you get some gobbledgook!
    Alan

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  • From Dave@21:1/5 to Chris Hughes on Tue Jan 30 21:29:02 2024
    In article <b12e8a2a5b.chris@mytardis>,
    Chris Hughes <[email protected]> wrote:
    In message <[email protected]>
    Dave <[email protected]> wrote:

    [Snip]

    I downloaded 1.55 from the ROOL site and installed it.

    It will open the archive as expected, but will not do the business with
    the protected text files within.

    "Unsupported compression method"

    Did you drag the txt file from within the zip file on to the SparkFS
    icon, you should have been offered a variety of types to re save as. My
    quick test seems to allow me to save them in the other formats I only
    tried 2 GZip and UUencode. But I did not have Gzip on my machine to
    test any further.

    It is AES 256 encoded.

    So the answer to your question is, I saved out one of the files as a .gz
    file.

    Went Windows side to see if anything would open it.

    Nothing I have would open it; 7-Zip, WinZip a couple of online unzippers,
    would open the .gz file saved out of SparkFS.

    So I'm afraid that's a cul-de-sac move. :-)

    Thanks to everyone who has made suggestions, but like the last time I
    asked this a year or so ago, nothing has changed...

    So as before, the project is now ended.

    I'll Just extract the mail attachment, bung it Win side into 7-Zip and
    then bring the unzipped file back to RISC OS.

    As she only runs Virtual RISC OS that's an easy route.

    Thanks
    Dave on Fay's behalf...

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    Dave Triffid

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  • From Dave@21:1/5 to Alan Griffin on Tue Jan 30 20:57:51 2024
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Alan Griffin <[email protected]> wrote:
    In article <9057502a5b.chris@mytardis>, Chris Hughes
    <[email protected]> wrote:
    I found if you dragged one of the txt file back onto the SparkFS icon
    you get offered a number of 'Save As' options. Have you tried any of
    these?

    If you drag it into Impression, you get some gobbledgook!
    Alan

    It's apparently AES 256 encoded.

    Dave

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    Dave Triffid

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