The attached zip file is a "real" one, in the sense that it has been created in the wild. It is a stripped down "terraform stack" generated by one of the cloud providers. InfoZIP's unzip can handle that file without problems: [emacs-master]$ unzip -v UnZip 6.00 of 20 April 2009, by Debian. Original by Info-ZIP. [...] [emacs-master]$ unzip -l tf-stack.zip Archive: tf-stack.zip Length Date Time Name --------- ---------- ----- ---- 38 2025-04-01 08:43 provider.tf --------- ------- 38 1 file However, "./src/emacs -Q tf-stack.zip" fails on it with: File mode specification error: (error "Buffer format not recognized") It turns out that the zip file starts with a special marker 0x08074b50 for spanned or split archives, as defined in the pseudo zip file specification "APPNOTE.txt" by PKWARE. See section 8.5 "Capacities and Markers" of that document for more details. The attached patch provides support for the aforementioned special marker, alongside with the already present "temporary spanning marker" 0x30304b50. The patch itself is trivial, but I tried to provide above information also in the commit message for future reference. WDYT? Thanks! In GNU Emacs 31.0.50 (build 6, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.38, cairo version 1.16.0) of 2025-04-18 built on sappc2 Repository revision: 9f0c43a3d1b38c93bf21bf25db0f5dd489338d7c Repository branch: master Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12201009 System Description: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) Configured using: 'configure --with-native-compilation --with-mailutils' Configured features: ACL CAIRO DBUS FREETYPE GIF GLIB GMP GNUTLS GPM GSETTINGS HARFBUZZ JPEG LCMS2 LIBOTF LIBSELINUX LIBSYSTEMD LIBXML2 M17N_FLT MODULES NATIVE_COMP NOTIFY INOTIFY PDUMPER PNG RSVG SECCOMP SOUND THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS WEBP X11 XDBE XIM XINERAMA XINPUT2 XPM XRANDR GTK3 ZLIB Important settings: value of $LC_COLLATE: POSIX value of $LC_TIME: POSIX value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Fundamental Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t show-paren-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t minibuffer-regexp-mode: t line-number-mode: t indent-tabs-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug lisp-mnt message mailcap yank-media puny dired dired-loaddefs rfc822 mml mml-sec password-cache epa derived epg rfc6068 epg-config gnus-util time-date mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader cl-loaddefs cl-lib sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils compile text-property-search comint subr-x ansi-osc ansi-color ring comp-run bytecomp byte-compile comp-common rx arc-mode archive-mode rmc iso-transl tooltip cconv eldoc paren electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type elisp-mode mwheel term/x-win x-win term/common-win x-dnd touch-screen tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page tab-bar menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch easymenu timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax font-core term/tty-colors frame minibuffer nadvice seq simple cl-generic indonesian philippine cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese composite emoji-zwj charscript charprop case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help abbrev obarray oclosure cl-preloaded button loaddefs theme-loaddefs faces cus-face macroexp files window text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget keymap hashtable-print-readable backquote threads dbusbind inotify lcms2 dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting cairo gtk x-toolkit xinput2 x multi-tty move-toolbar make-network-process tty-child-frames native-compile emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 72011 11711) (symbols 48 7037 0) (strings 32 18600 1457) (string-bytes 1 583099) (vectors 16 11590) (vector-slots 8 158155 10743) (floats 8 23 12) (intervals 56 264 0) (buffers 984 13))