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Creating a self booting ZIP archive

41 points • by gdgghhhhh • yesterday at 4:29 PM • 6 comments • view on HN

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jlundberg • yesterday at 8:38 PM

Thx for a good read!

Uncompressed ZIP files are a bit of an underappreciated container format.

Fetching individual files from a big ZIP file even works over HTTP when the http server support range requests.

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ebb_earl_co • yesterday at 8:30 PM

I have been a software developer for ten years, enthusiast for 20 years, and am “the computer guy” to my family and friends. However, when I read through something like this, it really feels that my knowledge of computing is ε away from 0…

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