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UnZip 5.31 for BeOS
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UnZip 5.30 was the first official release of Info-ZIP's UnZip to support
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the filesystem in BeOS.
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UnZip 5.31 supports the new filesystem present in Advanced Access Release
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DR9 of BeOS.
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*** WARNING ***
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The format of the data stored for the BeOS file attributes had to change
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between unzip 5.31b and unzip 5.31c! This makes the new unzip incompatible
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with the old zip's BeOS file attributes.
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You can still unpack the _data_ in older zip files (and there are several
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floating around, even though the unzip 5.31b for DR9 beta was only available
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for a week), but you won't be able to recover the file attributes in those
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archives.
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The new scheme makes handling BeOS file attributes much more robust, and
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allows for possible future expansion without another round of
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incompatibilities.
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That's life on the edge!
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*** WARNING ***
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The new filesystem allows for huge files (up to several terabytes!) with
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huge amounts of meta-data (up to several terabytes!). The existing ZIP
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format was designed when this much data on a personal computer was
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science fiction; as a result, it's quite possible that large amounts of file
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attributes (more than maybe 100+K bytes) could be truncated. Zip and UnZip
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try to deal with this in a fairly sensible way, working on the assumption
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that the data in the file is more important than the data in the file
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attributes.
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Please report any bugs to Zip-Bugs@lists.wku.edu.
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- Chris Herborth (chrish@qnx.com)
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May 29/1997
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