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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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