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Author	alanmcintyre
Recipients	alanmcintyre, ehuss, gvanrossum
Date	2008-01-06.20:55:38
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Message-id	<1199652941.5.0.655082587351.issue1622@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Based on the ZIP spec (I'm using the one here: http://www.pkware.com/documents/casestudies/APPNOTE.TXT), I'm inclined to agree. There's a general note that says "All fields unless otherwise noted are unsigned and stored in Intel low-byte:high-byte, low-word:high-word order." I can't find any explicit mention of any fields that should be signed. Since I find myself poking around in the ZIP file format today, I may try changing all the format strings to unsigned, and writing up some tests to check cases that can be run in a reasonable amount of time. If I get anything usable I'll post a patch.

Based on the ZIP spec (I'm using the one here:
http://www.pkware.com/documents/casestudies/APPNOTE.TXT), I'm inclined
to agree. There's a general note that says "All fields unless otherwise
noted are unsigned and stored in Intel low-byte:high-byte,
low-word:high-word order." I can't find any explicit mention of any
fields that should be signed.

Since I find myself poking around in the ZIP file format today, I may
try changing all the format strings to unsigned, and writing up some
tests to check cases that can be run in a reasonable amount of time.  If
I get anything usable I'll post a patch.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2008-01-06 20:55:42	alanmcintyre	set	spambayes_score: 0.00167965 -> 0.0016796493 recipients: + alanmcintyre, gvanrossum, ehuss
2008-01-06 20:55:41	alanmcintyre	set	spambayes_score: 0.00167965 -> 0.00167965 messageid: <1199652941.5.0.655082587351.issue1622@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2008-01-06 20:55:39	alanmcintyre	link	issue1622 messages
2008-01-06 20:55:38	alanmcintyre	create