Firefox's Optimized Zip Format: Reading Zip Files Quickly

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  • libdeflate

    Heavily optimized library for DEFLATE/zlib/gzip compression and decompression

  • HexFiend

    A fast and clever hex editor for macOS

    • I recently made a visualization template of ZIP file contents for HexFiend. The format is certainly wonky, and some writers (I’m looking at you, macOS) don’t get it quite right: https://github.com/HexFiend/HexFiend/blob/master/templates/A...

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    Distribute a Progressive Web App on the Microsoft Store

    • Another explication with (JS) code of the MS-DOS datetime encoding is at https://github.com/PaulCapron/pwa2uwp/blob/79ae42ea43e98eaf9...

    https://github.com/PaulCapron/pwa2uwp/blob/master/src/zip.js in its entirety provides a simple intro, with code, to the ZIP format (archiving only, with no compression)

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