Dec. 9, 1999
6:23 p.m.
I agree. I can't recall the details now, but I had a lot of problems with zip concatenation in JPython. I think at least some of the older Java tools for groking zips don't work with contatenation.
The Java "jar" tool mostly ignores the central directory -- it seems to read the archive from the front, using the local header records, and ignoring the central directory (of course it writes one when it creates an archive). --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)