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To: LA Walsh <law@tlinx.org>
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[Removing the mirrors list from this since I have to manually approve
everything...]+

LA Walsh wrote:
>
> 	I asked WinZip for plugin support so users could add
> arbitrary compressions formats (I specifically mentioned 'bz2').
> I even offered to do it myself if they wanted to give me NDA access
> to the code....  and was told that they have thought about
> extensibility but had no plans to support  it in the forseeable
> future.  Consider it a benefit of a closed source product.
> They control your file format, they control your business and personal decisions...nice.
> 
> 	Anyone up for writing a Free version of Winzip to replace
> the "cooperative" Winzip authors' version (was was up for making
> minor mod's, but not starting from scratch).
> 

WinME and WinXP has something called compressed folder support... they
treat .zip files as containers right in the desktop UI.

Perhaps *that* has some kind of plugin architecture?

	-hpa


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