[vox-tech] unzip producing output that is garbage

[Alex Mandel]

Dylan Beaudette wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> downloaded some data from the seamless.usgs.gov website, only to find that the 
> ZIP archives that it delivered expanded to garbage! 
> 
> running `file` on all of the contents returned "data", when other types should 
> have been recognized. Also, a tiff file that was included in the archive is 
> not being recognized as a tiff in any program. Text files have extra garbage 
> near the top of the files. 
> 
> Any thoughts on what could be causing this?
> 
> I have tried `unzip -b`  as well, trying to force the un-archiving of the tiff 
> file as binary, but without luck.
> 
> Any thoughts/ ideas?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
Are you sure the files you downloaded are good to begin with. Somehow I 
doubt they posted md5 or other hash methods for checking.
What are the links, I'll try some on various other OSs with multitudes 
of unzips software and see if I can get it to work then give you and md5 
to check for a working version.

Alex