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Subject: Re: [office] Link to info-zip
- From: robert_weir@us.ibm.com
- To: OpenDocument Mailing List <office@lists.oasis-open.org>
- Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 14:02:39 -0400
Ideally we would want to reference something
which was itself being maintained with a standards organization, or at
the very least something which was both stable and authoritative.
The ftp.uu.net version is stable --
it is an archived version and isn't going away. However, it isn't
very authoritative. In fact, this document is prefaced with this
comment block:
[Info-ZIP note, 970311: this
file is based on PKWARE's appnote.txt of
15 February 1996. It has
been unofficially corrected and extended by
Info-ZIP without explicit permission
by PKWARE. Although Info-ZIP
believes the information to be
accurate and complete, it is provided
under a disclaimer similar to
the PKWARE disclaimer below, differing
only in the substitution of "Info-ZIP"
for "PKWARE". In other words,
use this information at your
own risk, but we think it's correct. As
of PKZIPW 2.50, two new incompatibilities
have been introduced by PKWARE;
they are noted below. Note
that the NTFS "conflict" is currently not
real; PKZIPW 2.50 actually tags
NTFS files as having come from a FAT
file system, too.]
On the other hand, the appnote at http://www.pkware.com/business_and_developers/developer/appnote/
is certainly authoritative. But it is not stable. The location
can change at any time, and PKWare can replace this 6.2.2 version with
a new version at any time. Also, they do not seem to make available
on their web site the previous numbered versions for reference.
So we don't have a really good choice
here.
I was looking at this the Info-zip.org
site (http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/doc/). They appear to have
archived old versions of the PkWare app note, and as a group, the Info-zip
members seem to be providing some sort of stewardship of the format. However,
my copy of Winzip could not open their archives. This proves the
point of a need for a single normative standard for Zip archives. We're
not going to solve this problem now, but we might consider sending a note,
from the TC, to some of the Info-Zip and some of the main zip archive tools
companies and encourage them to get together and work on a definitive zip
standard that we (and others) can reference in future specifications.
-Rob
David Faure <faure@kde.org> wrote on 05/22/2006
11:41:40 AM:
> ftp://ftp.uu.net/pub/archiving/zip/doc/appnote-970311-iz.zip
>
> --
> David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
> Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).
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