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Re:What If OpenDocument Used SQLite? by masklinn on Thursday November 02, 2017 @04:51AM (#15608790)
Writing a zip unpacker — including deflate decompressor — can be wrapped up in half a day by an average developer.
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Re:What If OpenDocument Used SQLite? by wruza on Thursday November 02, 2017 @05:12AM (#15608875)
It sounds like good nuclear war proof solution. Maybe it is better to encode documents in Morse, because average radio man could transmit it via key in half a week.
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Re:What If OpenDocument Used SQLite? by masklinn on Thursday November 02, 2017 @07:05AM (#15609299)
> It sounds like good nuclear war proof solution.

It fits the requirements of reading the file without (external) software since you can trivially reimplement it, and is also a much lower threshold than "you need to reimplement sqlite", which is why pretty much every system out there comes bundled with a zipfile unpacker.

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