The .zip Standard Splinters
mmonnin
Centreville, VA
http://www.idg.net/ic_1321254_9677_1-5043.html
The .zip compression format has known remarkable stability and compatibility for many years, but that may soon change. PKWare and WinZip, 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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~dodo
If this happens, then the only thing that will get hurt is the .zip format, nothing more. All this so they can make a few dollars. All they need to do is work together for gods sake.
~dodo
I hardly see things zipped these days, what with high speed and rar.
both WinAce and WinRAR can unzip most common formats. Especially WinRAR, which they update fairly often to handle new compression schemes.
I think winrar will be the only winners in this as you know they will try and incorporate both into winrar.
The trend is towards self extracting executibles and compressed formats: JPEG, MPEG and the like. I dont see zip really going anywhere in the future.
~dodo