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[John Foust]

At 09:58 AM 5/20/2005, Jim Leonard wrote:
>ZIP is 100% completely wide open.  I remember Phil Katz himself donated donating the specs to the BBS community.  There was never any question as to whether or not the format was meant to be documented.

Phil's pickled and molding in the grave and the world turns.  There's old 
'pkzip', there's WinZip (commercial software with undocumented but perhaps 
rarely used extensions), there's 'infozip' open source'd, there's Zip 
extraction in Windows XP...  there's plenty of standards to choose from.  :-)

- John