DOS Python

Adrian Eyre a.eyre at optichrome.com
Fri Oct 8 06:59:34 EDT 1999


>> I suppose so; I never liked pkzip much, I preferred other (often more 
>> obscure) archivers like rar, ace, and jar. :)

> Well, jar, IFAIK, is a renamed pkzip ;)

IIRC, there are two archive formats called jar. One is the one commonly
associated with Java. The other is a really obscure aged archiver which
hardly anyone has heard of. That's why I was a bit concerned when Sun
chose the .jar extension for their purposes.

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