Help from someone with new PKWare zip program

Scott David Daniels Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org
Fri Aug 15 16:11:30 EDT 2003


PKWare has specified a new compression method (ZIP_BZIP2=12) for .zip
files.  This format provides (or can provide) very good compression.
Since python now has the bz2 module, I thought I'd try to teach the
zipfile module to read and write ZIP_BZIP2 compression as well as its
current ZIP_DEFLATE format.

If there is somebody out there with a copy of the PKWare program,
I'd like a small ZIP file compressed with that format, in order to
verify that I correctly produce / consume such files.  Once I trust
my code is correct, I'll release it.

-Scott David Daniels
Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org





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