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Originally Posted by By-Tor
Ah. From the sound of it, I thought the implementations were close to complete. I guess the first thing I'd like to see then is the wz jpeg compression, just for compatibility. I'm less concerned with a unique format right now as portability issues would be a hindrance. For another unique archive format to catch on, I think you'd need to release an open source portable command line version at the very least before it would be truly useful among other users.
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compatibility with only WinZip though, no other utility, and certainly no free or open source utility... so what is the difference really between PAF, IZEHRBLAH, and ZIPX, when only two products support extracting ZIPX archives.
Problem is that ZIP itself, due to old nature of format, will never be anywhere as good as modern format, and whatever extensions are added to ZIPX not only that they cant be as good as new format, they will also not be compatible with other products either.
Who knows, maybe PAF will be open format and maybe there will be free extraction tools, eventually anyway
