RE: [PATCH] add pkzip support for gzio

[Gregg C Levine]

Hello!
Perhaps.
But then again perhaps the crew from PKWare might also have been confusing
the issue. That's what comes from the problem of presenting software via a
clone who only knows how to present things, not properly explain them.

I do know that we should call the module simply zip and support the basic
methods behind how the zip and unzip programs work on most Linux
distributions.
--
Gregg C Levine address@hidden
"The Force will be with you always." Obi-Wan Kenobi
  


> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden
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> address@hidden On Behalf Of Marco Gerards
> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 5:54 AM
> To: The development of GRUB 2
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] add pkzip support for gzio
> 
> "Gregg Levine" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Marco Gerards <address@hidden>
wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> "y.volta" <address@hidden> writes:
> >>
> >>>     i've made a little patch for pkziped ( deflate mode ) file. by
> >>> using this, we can have both gunzip and pkunzip supported: they have
> >>> only header different with the same file. ;-)
> >>>
> >>>     please note, if your file is too small, pkzip will not compress it
> >>> but store the orginal data to the output file.
> >>
> >> Isn't this patented?
> >>
> >> --
> >> Marco
> >>
> > Hello!
> > Correct.
> > The name Pkzip is indeed copyrighted, by the firm who created the
> > original tools.
> 
> You are confusing copyright and patents, they are a different thing
> :-)
> 
> But if people say it is no longer patented, zip is fine for me.
> 
> --
> Marco
> 
> 
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