Re: 7zip working! Password issue.

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

An uneducated look at this, are you sure the string is correct since 
there is a "+" sign just past the password?  I would look at the debug 
script to see if what is being passed is what you think.

Jim Oberholtzer
CEO/Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects, LLC


On 6/14/2010 11:02 AM, Versfelt, Charles wrote:
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> Hi all,
>
> First, THANK YOU to Scott, I followed his latest instructions and my 7 zip software is finally working.  (Yay!)
> A little practice and trial and error in my CL program and I have it doing what I want... Almost.
>
> I have one last issue, an issue password protecting the zip file.
> This will probably be my last issue--when I solve this, I should be full-steam ahead on my project!
>
> I saw in the 7zip help that -p was the syntax for password protection.
>
> It IS creating my zip file password protected, however, the password that I specified doesn't seem to work.
>
> Here's my code.
>
> CHGVAR     VAR(&CMD) VALUE('export +
>               PATH=$PATH:/QOpenSys/usr/bin:/usr/local/lib+
>               /p7zip&&  7Z A -p:TESTPASS +
>               REQBCH100610132300.ZIP +
>               /HOME/ORBITAL/REQBCH100610132300.XML')
> STRQSH     CMD(&CMD)
>
> When all is done, the zip file is created, and when I open the zip file it asks for a password.
>
> But when I use TESTPASS to try to open the zip file, it says
>
> The file is encrypted with a different password.
> Please provide the original password.
>
> I know I'm not misspelling TESTPASS because I'm copy/pasting it right from my code.
>
> Any ideas what could be happening?
>
> PS. (Obviously, it's creating the Zip successfully so there are no errors in my error log.)
>
> Thanks,
> Charlie
>