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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KZip to support self-extracting EXE?
From:       Rene Gass <kde-devel () gmx ! de>
Date:       2002-10-02 17:14:01
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On Wednesday 02 October 2002 18:07, Richard Moore wrote:
> IIRC the master header for a zip file is stored at the end of the file
> so the correct solution is to search backwards from the end using the
> info it contains. This would eliminate most of the problems discussed
> here.

The only exception of this rule (that I know of) is a special mode of the 
DynaZIP compression library that stores the index at the beginning of the ZIP 
file. But that's documented to be non-standard, so nobody should need to 
worry about it.

Regards,

René

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