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Zip compression going propietary?
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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Phantasm66
on June 10, 2003 7:35 PM |
I can see one company releasing .zp2 or .zppit or something. If they wanna shoot themselves in the foot, fine. There's plenty of compression standards for file archiving in this manner - .gz and so forth. What's one more? I am sure that all of these zip type file format managers like winzip, powerzip, etc will support all future formats, and if they don't then they are daft. And there will be open source programs as well, etc. I am sure of it. No major changes on the file compression format front, I am sure. (Let's hope I am right). |
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Rick
on June 10, 2003 9:36 PM |
All I have to say is .RAR |
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---agissi---
on June 10, 2003 10:17 PM |
All I have to say is [b].ZIP[/b] |
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forciano
on June 10, 2003 11:03 PM |
all i have to say its all about the benjamins baby :) |
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StormBringer
on June 10, 2003 11:06 PM |
I use winrar anyway, and my preferred archive type is .rar, so let them fight it out, destroy eachother for all I care. I'm sure Winrar will support whatever comes of it, if I should need to deal with the filetype, and I will continue to "zip" things in .rar |
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Rick
on June 11, 2003 2:14 AM |
[quote][i]Originally posted by ---agissi--- [/i][b]All I have to say is [b].ZIP[/b] [/b][/quote] Nooo... [size=3][b].RAR![/b][/size] |
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DigitAlex
on June 11, 2003 5:53 AM |
Rar is great and have many advantages over zipbut has a very very bid DISadvantagethe algorithm is proprietary and i doubt there are open source versions of software to create decompress rars |
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Phantasm66
on June 11, 2003 5:59 AM |
Oh man....tar -zcvf ./tarball.tar.gz /path/to/dirhow hard is that?? |
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DigitAlex
on June 11, 2003 8:05 AM |
[quote][i]Originally posted by Phantasm66 [/i][b]Oh man....tar -zcvf ./tarball.tar.gz /path/to/dirhow hard is that?? [/b][/quote] Why do you say that ? because Rick says RAR?? |
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MrGaribaldi
on June 12, 2003 5:22 AM |
Phant> tar.gz isn't exactly common on Windows machines... And how hard is the following:pkunzip example.zip c:exampleor alternativelypkunzip -d -o example.zip c:example (which'll restore/create the directories in the zip, and overwrite any files without prompting....) |
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Antiorganic
on June 12, 2003 10:47 PM |
I'm tired of this "ZIP vs. RAR" nonsense.BZ2 is better, and it's an open standard to boot. |
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Phantasm66
on June 13, 2003 2:57 AM |
Look, tarballs rule you all. Bow your head! |
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DigitAlex
on June 13, 2003 5:57 AM |
i have a single word to aswer all your nonsense : STACKERLMAO :D |
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Rick
on June 13, 2003 10:46 PM |
[COLOR=red][SIZE=5][b]RAR[/b][/SIZE][/COLOR] |
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DigitAlex
on June 13, 2003 11:06 PM |
lol rick, this thread is going more like a new battleafter NV vs ATI and Intel vs AMD, let me present you, ladies and gentlement the new contest :RAR vs ZIP |
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