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rjnagle · 10-10-2009, 01:39 PM

I'm not sure what I did, but when I ran this command in Cygwin shell instead, epubcheck said it worked.

$ zip -q0X rjpub.epub mimetype
$ zip -r9 rjpub.epub OEBPS META-INF

everything worked (for the time being at least). Not sure why.

Please note that I never modified the mimetype file at any point.

10-10-2009, 01:39 PM	#6
rjnagle Zealot Posts: 126 Karma: 2167 Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Houston, Texas Device: ipad 1, Nook Simple Touch, Kindle 3, ebookwise 1150	I'm not sure what I did, but when I ran this command in Cygwin shell instead, epubcheck said it worked. $ zip -q0X rjpub.epub mimetype $ zip -r9 rjpub.epub OEBPS META-INF everything worked (for the time being at least). Not sure why. Please note that I never modified the mimetype file at any point.