[delphizip] The .ZIP Standard Changes - 2 incompatible flavors
- From: "Engler, Eric" <Eric.Engler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <delphizip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 13:04:22 -0400
> THE .ZIP STANDARD SPLINTERS
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> Posted June 10, 2003 5:30 AM Pacific Time
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> The .zip compression format has known remarkable stability
> and compatibility for many years, but that may soon change.
> PKWare and WinZip Computing, makers of competing compression
> and encryption products, are fighting over the .zip standard
> -- which means that .zip archive files created by one program
> may not be accessible by the other.
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> Both companies recently changed their implementations of the
> .zip format. In May, WinZip released a beta version of WinZip
> 9 that alters the .zip format. PKWare made its changes
> earlier, but recently posted specifications detailing its
> changes to the format.
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> For the full story:
> http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/06/10/HNzipsplinters_1.html
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