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.ZIP Standard to Fragment?
fudgefactor7 writes "As IDG.NET tells us, the venerable .ZIP compression standard is about to undergo a bit of a schism. PKWare and WinZip, the "big two" in the .ZIP format biz are (unfortunately) going to be making their respective releases incompatible (to an extent) and an archive made with one may not be accessible from another. The problem lies with PKWare not giving information to WinZip, thus making WinZip to go it alone."
boys, boys, boys... Let's all stop the fussin' and a feudin'
I LOVE you Winzip!
I LOVE you, PKZip!
*hugs all around*
There, isn't that better?
It was a joke! When you give me that look it was a joke.
Oh well, I guess I'll just have to keep using WinRAR.
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
switching the locations of the I accept and Quit buttons every time you open it.
What? you mean there's competing closed source applications on windows that break compatibility with each other.
Surely, you jest.
Altp.
Can I get a D?!?!
D!!!
Can I get an M?!?!
M!!!
Can I get a C?!?!
C!!!
Can I get an A?!?!
A!!!
What's that spell!?!?
Tyranny!
What's that spell!?!?
Bunch of assholes in Congress!
What's that spell!?!?
Lack of Innovation!
Dunno if either side would be big enough assholes to try it, but why couldn't you use DMCA there?
-Looking for a job as a materials chemist or multivariat
Hey, perhaps they can use the extension .WIP
Seems to accurately reflect the idea that WinZip is still a Work In Progress, eh?
H0ek
Think you're smart? Prove you've got brains!
What will my unix *zip programs be compatible with?
Zip.
Edith Keeler Must Die
anybody hitting those limits is a lamer or a file sharing pirate, probably both. kids these days. thank god for the mpaa and the riaa.
The genius who built a multimillion-dollar software company known worldwide for its pioneering "zip" files had died of acute pancreatic bleeding caused by chronic alcoholism.
Bizarre, I get pancreatic bleeding whenever I read any of John Katz's old articles.
Wonder if they are related.
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Wait... is "usaly" the bzip2 compressed version of usually?
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I vote we go back to LZH, ARJ, or ARC
I miss the BBS days where you needed about 10 compression programs.
People who break compression standards should be tarred and gzipped... I mean feathered.
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
luckily, most people stopped using pkware when they stopped using dos, so this doesn't present a problem.
Yeah, that's what the .gz.tar format is for.
I've used WinZip, and it's nice and all, but I just have a hard time using a product from a company with that name (third entry from the top).