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A comment on Firefox's Optimized Zip Format.

Re:Firefox's Optimized Zip Format by throw0101a on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @08:04PM (#29411279)
For anyone wondering about the official documentation of the file format, PKWARE has:

* https://pkware.cachefly.net/webdocs/casestudies/APPNOTE.TXT

* Via: https://support.pkware.com/home/pkzip/developer-tools/appnot...

6.3.9 was released July 15, 2020.

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Re:Firefox's Optimized Zip Format by lulalalalala on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @09:49PM (#29411933)
And for design spec ambiguities read https://web.archive.org/web/20210722231119/https://games.gre...
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Re:Firefox's Optimized Zip Format by MontagFTB on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @10:21PM (#29412152)
I recently made a visualization template of ZIP file contents for HexFiend. The format is certainly wonky, and some writers (I’m looking at you, macOS) don’t get it quite right: https://github.com/HexFiend/HexFiend/blob/master/templates/A...
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