Help from someone with new PKWare zip program

[JanC]

Scott David Daniels <Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org> schreef:

> PKWare has specified a new compression method (ZIP_BZIP2=12) for .zip
> files.  This format provides (or can provide) very good compression.
> Since python now has the bz2 module, I thought I'd try to teach the
> zipfile module to read and write ZIP_BZIP2 compression as well as its
> current ZIP_DEFLATE format.
> 
> If there is somebody out there with a copy of the PKWare program,
> I'd like a small ZIP file compressed with that format, in order to
> verify that I correctly produce / consume such files.  Once I trust
> my code is correct, I'll release it.

There are a free evaluation copies here:
<http://www.pkware.com/products/free_eval.html>

Works for 30 days & registration is required...

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JanC

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