# This loads everything needed for "clock scan" to work
	# "clock scan" is used within "vfs::zip", which may be
	# loaded before this is run causing the root VFS to break
	catch { clock scan }

	# Load these, the original Tclkit does so it should be safe.
	uplevel #0 [list source [file join $tcl_mountpoint lib vfs vfsUtils.tcl]]

	# Set a maximum seek to avoid reading the entire DLL looking for a
	# zip header
	catch {
		package require vfs::zip
		set ::zip::max_header_seek 8192
	}

	# Now that the initialization is complete, mount the user VFS if needed
	## Mount the VFS from the Shared Object
	if {[info exists ::initVFS] && [info exists ::tclKitFilename]} {
		catch {
			package require vfs::zip

			vfs::zip::Mount $::tclKitFilename "/.KITDLL_USER"

			lappend auto_path [file normalize "/.KITDLL_USER/lib"]
		}
	}

	## Mount the VFS from executable
	if {[info exists ::initVFS]} {
		catch {
			package require vfs::zip

			vfs::zip::Mount [info nameofexecutable] "/.KITDLL_APP"

			lappend auto_path [file normalize "/.KITDLL_APP/lib"]
		}
	}

	# Clean up
	unset -nocomplain ::zip::max_header_seek

	# Clean up after the kitInit.c:preInitCmd
	unset -nocomplain ::initVFS ::tclKitFilename
}

    # comments the chunk may start at an arbitrary distance from the
    # end of the file. So if we do not find the header immediately
    # we have to extend the range of our search, possibly until we
    # have a large part of the archive in memory. We can fail only
    # after the whole file has been searched.

    set sz  [tell $fd]
    if {[info exists ::zip::max_header_seek]} {
        if {$::zip::max_header_seek < $sz} {
            set sz $::zip::max_header_seek
        }
    } 
    set len 512
    set at  512
    while {1} {
	if {$sz < $at} {set n -$sz} else {set n -$at}

	seek $fd $n end
	set hdr [read $fd $len]

diff -uNr tclvfs-20080503.orig/library/zipvfs.tcl tclvfs-20080503-1rsk/library/zipvfs.tcl
--- tclvfs-20080503.orig/library/zipvfs.tcl	2008-04-15 16:11:53.000000000 -0500
+++ tclvfs-20080503-1rsk/library/zipvfs.tcl	2010-09-28 16:43:12.000000000 -0500
+++ tclvfs-20080503-1rsk/library/zipvfs.tcl	2010-10-01 21:48:38.000000000 -0500
@@ -107,6 +107,10 @@
 	    
 	    ::zip::stat $zipfd $name sb
 
+            if {$sb(ino) == -1} {
+                vfs::filesystem posixerror $::vfs::posix(EISDIR)
+            }

-	# Only mday can be wrong, at end of month
-	incr mday -1
     }
+
     return $res
 }
 
@@ -360,6 +364,11 @@
     # after the whole file has been searched.
 
     set sz  [tell $fd]
+    if {[info exists ::zip::max_header_seek]} {
+        if {$::zip::max_header_seek < $sz} {
+            set sz $::zip::max_header_seek
+        }
+    }
     set len 512
     set at  512
     while {1} {
@@ -381,7 +385,12 @@
@@ -381,7 +390,12 @@
     }
 
     set hdr [string range $hdr [expr $pos + 4] [expr $pos + 21]]
-    set pos [expr [tell $fd] + $pos - 512]
+
+    set seekstart [expr {[tell $fd] - 512}]
+    if {$seekstart < 0} {
+        set seekstart 0
+    }
+    set pos [expr {$seekstart + $pos}]
 
     binary scan $hdr ssssiis \
 	cb(ndisk) cb(cdisk) \
@@ -396,10 +405,15 @@
@@ -396,10 +410,15 @@
 
     # Compute base for situations where ZIP file
     # has been appended to another media (e.g. EXE)
-    set cb(base)	[expr { $pos - $cb(csize) - $cb(coff) }]
+    set base            [expr { $pos - $cb(csize) - $cb(coff) }]
+    if {$base < 0} {
+        set base 0
+    }
+    set cb(base)	$base
 }
 
 proc zip::TOC {fd arr} {
+    upvar #0 zip::$fd cb
     upvar 1 $arr sb
 
     set buf [read $fd 46]
@@ -410,6 +424,8 @@
@@ -410,6 +429,8 @@
       flen elen clen sb(disk) sb(attr) \
       sb(atx) sb(ino)
 
+    set sb(ino) [expr {$cb(base) + $sb(ino)}]
+
     if { ![string equal "PK\01\02" $hdr] } {
 	binary scan $hdr H* x
 	error "bad central header: $x"
@@ -442,7 +458,7 @@
@@ -442,7 +463,7 @@
 	
 	zip::EndOfArchive $fd cb
 
-	seek $fd $cb(coff) start
+	seek $fd [expr {$cb(base) + $cb(coff)}] start
 
 	set toc(_) 0; unset toc(_); #MakeArray