From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 15 22:22:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA15662 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 22:22:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA15329 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 22:18:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id QAA28110; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 16:44:37 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199601160614.QAA28110@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: FBSD 2.1 To: nate@sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 16:44:37 +1030 (CST) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, phk@critter.tfs.com, imp@village.org, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199601160313.UAA02937@rocky.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Jan 15, 96 08:13:11 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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 -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[