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>there are two mechanisms to identify the contents, the per-file header and the central directory There is only one right, standard mandated, way to identify t
by poincaredisk 2y ago
>there are two mechanisms to identify the contents, the per-file header and the central directory
There is only one right, standard mandated, way to identify the contents (central directory). For one or another reason many implementations ignore it, but I don't think it's fair to say that the zip format in ambiguous.
- immibis 2y agoSometimes you want to read the file front-to-back in a streaming fashion.
- cxr 2y agoThat doesn't change anything wrt what the parent commenter said. Imagine— Officer: The reason why I pulled you over is that you were doing 45, but this is a 25 mph school zone right now, and even aside from that the posted speed when this is not a school zone is only 35. So you shouldn't be going faster than that, like you were just now. Motorist: But sometimes you want to go faster than that.