One of the dark corners of ZIP file format is the “multi-segment” archive feature. By “multi-segment archive”, I mean to include the disk spanning features intended for flop…| Entropymine
I have tried all of the following applications (download.cnet.com - the free ones), and none of them will convert an RAR archive to a ZIP, without compressing the files ("store" mode). 7-ZIP would be| Super User
The most popular option to decompress ZIP files from the Rust programming language is a crate simply named zip — At the time of this writing, it has 48 million downloads. It ’ s fully-featured, sup...| fasterthanli.me
At some point in the past, I created a tool for a project (not relevant for this post). This tool generated multiple artefacts from an input (embeddings file, JSON metadata, and other files). The …| rand[om]
Iomega ZIP 100 drives Thanks to friends of mine, I was able to get two working parallel-port ZIP drives from Iomega. My father used to use these during the 1990s as ZIP disks were popular in offices in Czech Republic. He later switched to an internal ZIP drive connected to IDE when his parallel-port external one died and used it for another 10 years. I have a few systems where it is not possible to add a network controller so I though that this would be a good device for faster data transfers...| 80-90s Computing
7Zip version 21.0 provides native Linux support. Learn how to install 7Zip on Linux and the basics of creating and extracting 7z archives.| Putorius