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Sure 😅

No one will ever know (besides us)! 😉😏

Shhhh. I wont tell anyone, joe, trust me

Btw wow im early

I'll use a mix of both

@@ThioJoe That's good to know.

Ok...

I mean, it's basically no work. just a minute or two to make one that works and you're done! no copyright or anything to worry about

@@ThioJoe which AI generator do you use?

I think you meant manifest file that hold the metadata info of the jar like the main class if any, main class is only needed if you want that to run if double click Edit Added some corrections Also jre is for running (java.exe ) Jdk for compiling (javac.exe)

i don't think the jre does any compiling at runtime, it just acts as a platform to run the bytecode generated by javac

Yup. Minecraft's classes look like that because it was obfuscated to prevent people from just opening it up and stealing the code to make a ripoff.

Comic book reader cbr files are also zip files.

Any java decompiler can decompile the class files and apk files can be decompiled too.

Or if you are using a decent archiving program(like 7zip) you can just extract the data of any container, so no need to change file extensions.

The page ordering rules for cbz are a bit vague though, so you have to left-pad the page numbers with zeros to make sure you get a consistent ordering when viewing.

Hey that's great info, I didn't know that! Thanks!

@@vylbird8014 Numbered files that AREN'T left-padded with zeros are an abomination! :)

@c6amp It's the original picture given to users who didn't have a profile picture. When KZfaq decided that everyone needed to have a picture and that it was going to give generic letter-based pictures to anyone who didn't upload their own, I took a screenshot of the default image and uploaded it as my profile picture. Call it my own little protest against KZfaq imposing its will on the users. :) Since nobody else still has this image, it stands out when I'm looking through the comments.

Pk3s are also used in srb2/modern doom source ports

The reason why they don't do this it's simple: they just don't want you to do it!

Sorry but you would actually not really like it

Beyond obfuscation like has been mentioned, I think another big factor might be performance. Zip is somewhat old and may not be exactly optimal in terms of how fast you can get the compressed data off of your drive and into memory.

Damn, that's a live pro tipp

YEs they are and if you can figure out which folder it needs to go on the C: drive you can just drag and drop it from the archiver program into the folder to install it.

EXE, DLL (and probably MSI) files shown in this video are NOT ZIP files. EXE/DLL are PE files, which stands for Portable Executable. It's the format Windows uses so that machine code, and data it uses, for a program is in one, portable, file. PE files typically has the .text section (the program's actual machine code) and the .rsrc section (other data the program needs). But the .rsrc section can include other files, including valid Zip files. This is what I think self-extracting exes are extracting, and what Archiver programs look for. Finding none, they'll show you the PE structures instead.

@@mfaizsyahmi It is. Basically, when you are generating resources for an executable image, you do have the option of adding files to the resource section. So at build time you can use a resource script with a user defined resource file and add an archive to the resource section. Since this isn't useful for self extractors, since it would require you building the executable, it is also possible to edit the resources section. Windows has the UpdateResource function which facilitates this. A self extracting archive or an installer which has the files as part of the executable resources can either just enumerate the resources, or assume that a fixed resource ID will always be used.

@@mfaizsyahmi You can just attach Zip data to the end of EXE, there is no need to add it to any section. In fact, adding a big Zip to a section may be unwanted, as sections are loaded in RAM. Most self-extracting archives don't add the archive to sections. Zip format is special, because it has a footer instead of header - archivers read it from the end of the file. That's why it can coexist with many header-based formats.

Yeah same, only with ISO files. Because archiver programs seem to associate files that don't appear to be archive files until you look for yourself. I already knew jar files were a form of archive files because it literally has archive in its name. And also from winrar associating jar files as an archive file.

Archives where you have to extract everything are called solid archives, most formats have the option to create solid or non-solid archives so it isn't a particular advantage for zip files. Zip is just built into Windows so devs* don't have to worry about including an archiver with their programs (which is a bit of a problem for slow internet). The advantage of solid archives is that they can be made smaller but how much smaller depends on a lot of factors and the risk of corruption are far worse (if the archive is corrupted at all then all of the files within will likely be lost). Source: I messed around with solid RAR archives back in the day trying to save space on my EHDD but ended up losing a bunch of data because the archive got corrupted so I started using non-solid archives exclusively and found there was very little difference in size. Just to make sure I was remembering everything correctly I double checked and found that 7zip (the format I switched to in more recent years) uses a bit of a hybrid approach where the archives can have multiple solid blocks the size of which can be set. 7-zip also allows for the creation of completely non-solid archives. Since I've switched to internal SSDs and a NAS with high quality NAS HDDs and have multiple backups in general I'm not as worried about corruption as I used to be. *There's an interesting story behind that and Microsoft's Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish policy of the time.

Yeah, that’s in no way unique to Zip. If anything, I suspect that compression formats that require you to extract all the files at once are the exception, not the rule.

And .rpm

Hello Again ._.

@@salamiwallnut as the name sugests a tar.gz is a file compressed with tar and after that compressed with gunzip, just a way to make the file smaller. it has became so standard in linux, that it has became just one binary who does both.

wanted to comment that too, i ended up with one on a non-debian system recently

@@salamiwallnut I think he's referring to Arch pacman packages. However you are correct in pointing out that that is just a generic archive format, and that Arch pacman packages are quite literally zipped tar archives with no special file extension of any kind. As such, it wouldn't really fit in a video like this.

Same.

EXE, DLL (and probably MSI) files shown in this video are NOT ZIP files. EXE/DLL are PE files, which stands for Portable Executable. It's the format Windows uses so that machine code, and data it uses, for a program is in one, portable, file. If you think about it, they can't be zip files because then how would a zip program (meaning the program that zips/unzips zip files) run? How would windows even exist before zip files were invented?

.sb files are not zips afaik, only sb2/3s.

wait .sb2 aswell? didn't know

That (---) was really unnecessary qnd like no one cares how many years ago.

It's not to be fancy, it's to bundle all the different things needed to get things to work to come in a single file, arranged in a certain way.

@@Gunz1234 Your entire reply was unnecessary 🤷‍♂

@@mfaizsyahmi Oh, no, I meant changing the file extension makes it look fancier than just naming it with .zip 🙂

@@IceMetalPunk Not exactly. Like Joe said in the video, changing the extension helps the OS (mainly Microsoft Windows) to open the file with a specific program (because Windows depends on the extension, not the file content). Then, how will Windows know if that .zip file belongs to Adobe Illustrator or Java Virtual Machine (Minecraft)? That's the point.

An important thing about EXE/DLL is that they're not ZIP files, they're PE files, totally different specs. But any archiver program worth their salt understands the PE format as well as a ZIP format.

​@@mfaizsyahmi What these archivers show is the section headers for almost everything, and the resource directory for the resource section.

I think in the video you are showing an older version of the game, in newer versions a majority of the folders shown in the video are nested inside the `data` and `assets` folders that I mentioned in my above comment

EXE, DLL (and probably MSI) files shown in this video are NOT ZIP files. EXE/DLL are PE files, which stands for Portable Executable. It's the format Windows uses so that machine code, and data it uses, for a program is in one, portable, file. If you think about it, they can't be zip files because then how would a zip program (meaning the program that zips/unzips zip files) run? How would windows even exist before zip files were invented?

Honestly, packages are a brilliant concept that solves so many common problems. But since none of the other major OSes have any equivalent concept for bundling a folder into an opaque, pseudo-monolithic file, using a zip archive is a great workaround that basically achieves the same thing.

Lol yep

I miss him ever since when the triple the internet video was uploaded. Man those times 😞

@@TrojanLube69 I've got extra 64 gigs of RAM thanks to him.

Legendary KZfaqr

@@just.nobody yeah, no way you can download that amount anymore 😭😩

I can answer for the tar variants: tar once stood for "tape archive", and was a way to just pack a number of small files together to store on magnetic tape, back when Unix was king. These use no compression. The .gz, .xz, and .bz2 extensions are just different compression methods applied to a standard tar file, so unlike zip, the whole file up to and including the files you are looking to extract has to be run through the uncompressor first. Zip stores a list of the files and their positions in the zip file at the end of the zip file, and each file is compressed separately, often using different compression algorithms.

Exactly my thoughts as soon as I saw that `.text` section

Windows installer (.msi) files are databases. So what is being shown there are the database tables.

And Microsoft wants to us forget the Word doc that made everybody's computer 3 to 11 and Apples open to the world!

Yep

Stands for Phil Katz, the creator of the zzip file spec. RIP Phil Katz, 1962-2000.

@@mfaizsyahmi In the ancient days of computing zip were PKzip.. I never knew why... RIP PK.. We are grateful!!

SUS?!

Interesting