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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. Ehhh...I'll just keep using WinRar by bravehamster · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Yeah, I'll keep on using Winrar. It'll probably be able to read them both in a month.

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  2. Use 7 Zip, it's OS by Znonymous+Coward · · Score: 1, Redundant

    http://www.7-zip.org/

    It works with:
    zip
    tar
    bz2
    cap
    cpio
    gz
    rar
    rpm

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  3. RAR more flexible by toounknown · · Score: 0, Redundant

    winrar is a Much better utility for windows users. It handles multiple archive formats and gets much better compression rates using its native rar archive. Just my $.02

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  4. Why not... by sterno · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Why not just zip something or tar something and then whip a little PGP on it? Seems like that would be easier and it's a pretty well proven technology.

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