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Known, current PKZIP bugs/limitations:
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- PKUNZIP 2.04g is reported to corrupt some files when compressing them with
the -ex option; when tested, the files fail the CRC check, and comparison
with the original file shows bogus data (6K in one case) embedded in the
middle. PKWARE apparently characterized this as a "known problem."
- PKUNZIP 2.04g considers volume labels valid only if originated on a FAT
file system, but other OSes and file systems (e.g., Amiga and OS/2 HPFS)
support volume labels, too.
- PKUNZIP 2.04g can restore volume labels created by Zip 2.x but not by
PKZIP 2.04g (OS/2 DOS box only??).
- PKUNZIP 2.04g gives an error message for stored directory entries created
under other OSes (although it creates the directory anyway), and PKZIP -vt
does not report the directory attribute bit as being set, even if it is.
- PKZIP 2.04g mangles unknown extra fields (especially OS/2 extended attri-
butes) when adding new files to an existing zipfile [example: Walnut Creek
Hobbes March 1995 CD-ROM, FILE_ID.DIZ additions].
- PKUNZIP 2.04g is unable to detect or deal with prepended junk in a zipfile,
reporting CRC errors in valid compressed data.
- PKUNZIP 2.04g (registered version) incorrectly updates/freshens the AV extra
field in authenticated archives. The resultant extra block length and total
extra field length are inconsistent.
- [Windows version 2.01] Win95 long filenames (VFAT) are stored OK, but the
file system is always listed as ordinary DOS FAT.
- [Windows version 2.50] NT long filenames (NTFS) are stored OK, but the
file system is always listed as ordinary DOS FAT.
- PKZIP 2.04 for DOS encrypts using the OEM code page for 8-bit passwords,
while PKZIP 2.50 for Windows uses Latin-1 (ISO 8859-1). This means an
archive encrypted with an 8-bit password with one of the two PKZIP versions
cannot be decrypted with the other version.
- PKUNZIP 2.04g is reported to have problems with archives created on and/or
copied from Iomega ZIP drives (irony, eh?).
Known, current WinZip bugs/limitations:
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- [16-bit version 6.1a] NT short filenames (FAT) are stored OK, but the
file system is always listed as NTFS.
- WinZip doesn't allow 8-bit passwords, which means it cannot decrypt an
archive created with an 8-bit password (by PKZIP or Info-ZIP's Zip).
Possibly current PKZIP bugs:
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- PKZIP (2.04g?) can silently ignore read errors on network drives, storing
the correct CRC and compressed length but an incorrect and inconsistent
uncompressed length.
- PKZIP (2.04g?), when deleting files from within a zipfile on a Novell
drive, sometimes only zeros out the data while failing to shrink the
zipfile.
Other limitations:
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- PKZIP 1.x and 2.x encryption has been cracked (known-plaintext approach;
see http://www.cryptography.com/ for details).
[many other bugs in PKZIP 1.0, 1.1, 1.93a, 2.04c and 2.04e]