Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 16:44:37 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: nate@sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, phk@critter.tfs.com, imp@village.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSD 2.1 Message-ID: <199601160614.QAA28110@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199601160313.UAA02937@rocky.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Jan 15, 96 08:13:11 pm
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Nate Williams stands accused of saying:
>
> [ Using ZIP for the package tools ]
> > Also, as a point of fact, I thought the unzip we were using was just
> > the uncompression part, not the unarchiving part.
>
> True, but as stated before (and I have them on backup tape somewhere)
> the format of a ZIP file is public knowledge, and the Info-ZIP folks
> have done their homework. Their code and algorithms are pretty safe. I
Indeed. 'man zip':
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thanks to R. P. Byrne for his Shrink.Pas program, which
inspired this project, and from which the shrink algorithm
was stolen; to Phil Katz for placing in the public domain
the zip file format, compression format, and .ZIP filename
extension, and for accepting minor changes to the file
format; to Steve Burg for clarifications on the deflate
...
> Nate
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