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Re: Netscape .car file format?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arthur van Hoff)
Mon Oct 16 03:58:07 1995
From: Arthur.Vanhoff@Eng.Sun.COM (Arthur van Hoff)
To: cman@communities.com (Douglas Barnes)
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 1995 23:10:00 -0800 (PDT)
Cc: java-interest@webrunner.neato.org (java)
In-Reply-To: <v02120d07aca7a09250f9@[199.2.22.120]> from "Douglas Barnes" at Oct 15, 95 10:16:38 pm
Hi,
> I've figured out most of the .car file format, but thought
> before I wrote my own car/uncar tool that I'd find out if
> anyone has already done this, or has looked at the format
> more closely than I have.
The car file format is temporary. We are replacing it with
zip files in the next release. The advantage is that there
are plenty of tools that deal with zip files, and they can
be compressed.
Have fun,
Arthur van Hoff
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