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.ZIP Standard to Fragment?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday June 10, 2003 @05:02AM 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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Re:*sigh* by kzinti · 2003-06-10 05:06 · Score: 0, Troll

Oh, shut UP, Cletus!

ObZip: what's wrong with foo.tar.gz.pgp - or foo.tar.bz2.pgp?
Re:Splitting Those ZIPs by Greedo · 2003-06-10 05:55 · Score: 0, Troll

Um, I've hit those limits before and I am neither.

Pr0n afficianado, perhaps?

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compatibility by joe_bruin · 2003-06-10 07:18 · Score: 0, Troll

i hope this does not break compatibility with the lossy zip (lzip) compression format.

in other compression news, i just upgraded my system from dos 6.2 to dos 6.22, so i can test the theory of whether you can gain infinite storage space from your harddrive if you 'doublespace' it repeatedly. wish me luck.