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- From: d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
- Subject: Re: PKZip 2.x
- In-Reply-To: madler@cco.caltech.edu's message of 24 Jul 92 20:46:20 GMT
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- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 10:49:36 GMT
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- > madler@cco.caltech.edu (Mark Adler) writes:
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- >I was wondering if the current ZIP file format fully machine and
- >platform independent; i.e., will it support extended file
- >attributes in OS/2, extended attributes/filenames in Unix, etc.
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- To elaborate on a previous response, Info-zip's next version will
- support full OS/2 and VMS attributes. Whether this is part of the
- "ZIP file format" depends on what you mean.
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- Will it support Mac resource forks as file info ?
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- In a way such that the other machines can get at it/create it too ?
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- Jon W{tte, Svartmangatan 18, S-111 29 Stockholm, Sweden
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