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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. Taco's Backside? by John+Harrison · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Somehow the original article lacks the reference to great leader's hind quarters.

    I wonder how often the "Slashdotted - text below" posts here on /. have "clever" little changes to them?

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  2. Re:IDG mirrored below by mikeboone · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    PKWare's chief competitor, WinZip

    I wonder how these guys feel about the zip support embedded in XP?

  3. OnShoring The Trolls by mobileskimo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I may be a political midget so correct me if I've missed something. This appears to be a company, which by the way is one company, bringing services here to created training and jobs in Buffalo. Especially with University Buffalo students. I think the goal here is that Hillary doesn't want college drop outs like you sitting around trolling /. all day, and instead have you working for this Indian company bringing water bottles to their meetings.

    I think Offshoring is when American companies take their manufacturing plants, like the enema factory your father works at, and move them to cheaper labor elsewhere, like your sister.

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  4. Re:IDG mirrored below by Angry+White+Guy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You put too much faith in the M2. Fair x10 is how that'll play out :)

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  5. Re:IDG mirrored below by John+Harrison · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    It is informative. In the time it took me to load the original and /.ed article I had already read several comments, including this one, which contains the entire text of the article.

    If I M2 your mod (if in fact you did mod it) I will M2 it as unfair, because I will have read the whole thing.

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