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Probably "how not to specify a file format" is a better title? Lots of issues in the APPNOTE are already well-known, Info-Zip had its own version of an unoffic
by lifthrasiir 3y ago
Probably "how not to specify a file format" is a better title? Lots of issues in the APPNOTE are already well-known, Info-Zip had its own version of an unofficially corrected specification [1] [2] for example. Even the international standard (ISO/IEC 21320-1:2015) is not helpful, as it is specified by subsetting the APPNOTE, not correcting it.
[1] https://libzip.org/specifications/appnote_iz.txt https://libzip.org/specifications/appnote_iz.txt
[2] https://entropymine.wordpress.com/2019/08/22/survey-of-zip-appnote-documents/ https://entropymine.wordpress.com/2019/08/22/survey-of-zip-a...
- sph 3y agoAny updated version of this revised spec? Because the official APPNOTE.TXT [1] has been updated in Nov 2022, while your first link has been updated in April 2004. 1: https://pkware.cachefly.net/webdocs/casestudies/APPNOTE.TXT https://pkware.cachefly.net/webdocs/casestudies/APPNOTE.TXT