On 7/20/06, Marcus Boerger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If not then there probably is no mainstream use for a Zip class and inclusion to core makes little sense.
Hi, I took this from wikipedia( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIP_%28file_format%29): ------- Microsoft has also included minimal built-in ZIP support (under the name "compressed folders") in later versions of its Windows<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows> operating system <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system>. Apple also included built-in ZIP support in Mac OS X <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X> v10.3 and later. Some software uses the ZIP file format as a wrapper for a large number of small items. Generally when this is done a different file extension is used. Examples of this usage are Java<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_programming_language> JAR <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAR_%28file_format%29> files, id Software<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id_Software>.pk3/.pk4 files, package files for StepMania <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StepMania> and Winamp<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winamp>, XPInstall <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XPInstall>, and some OpenOffice.org<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org>document formats. The OpenDocument <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument> format usually uses the JAR file format <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAR_%28file_format%29>internally, so it can be easily uncompressed and compressed using tools for ZIP files. -- sincerely yours, Alexander Pak
