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.ZIP Standard to Fragment?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the after-so-many-years dept.

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."

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  1. best Winzip feature by Mantorp · · Score: 5, Funny

    switching the locations of the I accept and Quit buttons every time you open it.

  2. Your joking!?!? by altp · · Score: 5, Funny

    What? you mean there's competing closed source applications on windows that break compatibility with each other.

    Surely, you jest.

    Altp.

  3. D - M - C - A by siskbc · · Score: 5, Funny
    What about reverse engineering? If hordes of *nix programmers can do it why can't Winzip do it? Legal issues? ...?

    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?

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    -Looking for a job as a materials chemist or multivariat

  4. Re:Depends on how they handle it by H0ek · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey, perhaps they can use the extension .WIP

    Seems to accurately reflect the idea that WinZip is still a Work In Progress, eh?

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    H0ek
    Think you're smart? Prove you've got brains!
  5. Re:*sigh* by Alizarin+Erythrosin · · Score: 5, Funny

    Pretty funny coming from a guy named Vengeance...

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    There are only 10 kinds of people in this world... those who understand binary and those who don't
  6. Aww great.. by TeknoHog · · Score: 5, Funny

    People who break compression standards should be tarred and gzipped... I mean feathered.

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    Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.