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Hah! That's also how I first learned about the zip trick with pptx. Had never considered it generalizes outside of OOXML files. I'll give it a try next time I'm
by danielochoa0620 1mo ago
Hah! That's also how I first learned about the zip trick with pptx.
Had never considered it generalizes outside of OOXML files. I'll give it a try next time I'm poking around another file format
- bena 1mo agoYou’d be surprised how many file formats are some flavor of “zip file containing files”. JAR/WAR, iOS apps, and others
- yellowapple 1mo agoAnd SQLite: https://sqlite.org/appfileformat.html https://sqlite.org/appfileformat.html In fact, relevantly to this article: https://sqlite.org/affcase1.html https://sqlite.org/affcase1.html
- bena 1mo agoI think it’s a decent hack. Zip is a known format, so library support is mature. It can contain a local file system. And no one is going to casually muck about in it, so you can trust the structure.