An un-unzippable ZIP file

Apparently, I'm writing a series of articles about ZIP format. Here's a curiosity. I'm going to use the Info-ZIP zip program to make a ZIP file that the Info-ZIP unzip program cannot unzip. I'll only do things that should be benign, i.e. things that a normal user might conceivably do. This article assumes you have …

Survey of ZIP APPNOTE documents

[2019-09-21: I've edited this document to include some new discoveries.] I already wrote an article about the version history of the PKZIP software, so now it's time for one about the version history of the ZIP format. That sounds like it should be easy, but… not so much. I think the format versions are more …

Survey of PKZIP versions for MS-DOS

I wanted to know exactly what versions of the old PKZIP compression software were publicly released for MS-DOS, and some basic characteristics about them, particularly what compression methods they used when compressing files. Sure, Wikipedia has a list, but it wasn't quite what I wanted, and it omitted at least one version I was pretty …