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  • Support legacy ZIP compression methods (for decompression at least)

    From Rob Swindell@1:103/705 to GitLab issue in main/sbbs on Tue May 6 17:20:22 2025
    open https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/928

    libarchive and zlib don't support legacy (pre-DEFLATED) ZIP compression methods. But it can be done:

    https://www.hanshq.net/zip2.html
    https://github.com/jsummers/oldunzip/

    This would allow the extraction and viewing or subsequent download of archived files from legacy ZIP files.

    Whether this is done as a patch to zlib or libarchive or something internal to sbbs, it seems totally doable.
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  • From Nigel Reed@1:103/705 to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Tue May 6 23:30:06 2025
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/928#note_7201

    It looks like the libarchive team would be willing to consider implementing implode/explode if someone were to submit it so maybe that's the place for it?

    https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/2365
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