A quasi technical article
We've been slacking and not blogging and when we have been blogging we've been dropping the technical ball a bit. We're trying to be better.
A big event happened in July and it went largely unnoticed, or so it seems, so I'll announce it here. Info-zip, one of the most popular programs around, has released version 3.0! There are actually a lot of good and timely new features in the 3.0 release of the PKZip clone.
- large-file support (i.e., > 2GB)
- support for more than 65536 files per archive
- multi-part archive support
- bzip2 compression support
- Unicode (UTF-8) filename and (partial) comment support
- difference mode (for incremental backups)
- filesystem-synch mode
- among others.
Bzip2 compression is interesting, it modernizes zip a bit but the things that are really important is the large-file support and support for more than 65536 files per archive, those limitations have become almost regular problems for some of us lately.
