windows binary

[Thomas Lauer]

"TK Soh" <teekaysoh at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 8/9/07, Bela Babik <teki321 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Some zip tools don't like zipfiles with extra data at the start, but
> > > it's perfectly valid according to the zip spec. Winzip doesn't seem
> > > happy with it, but the command line zip utility is fine (as you see
> > > above)
> >
> > No offense, it may be a valid zip file just can't be modified with the
> > built in tools, which scares most Windows users.
> 
> This is getting a litttle off topic, but if the spec allows it,
> there's nothing wrong with. It's the Windoze people that need to learn
> and adapt.
> 
> Personally, Windoze users can get scared by just about anything not
> created by M$ ;-)

Then again, there are also those "Windoze" users who are scared by just
about anything created by M$... it's a scary world;-)

As to the library.zip issue, people scared by a zip file their tools
don't understand shouldn't mess with it in the first place. So no
problem at all.

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cheers  thomasl

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