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- From: Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr@Adobe.COM>
- To: Chris Hubick <maillist@chris.hubick.com>, xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
- Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 16:31:26 -0400
At 1:23 AM +0000 9/29/98, Chris Hubick wrote:
>> The Java ARchive (JAR) format has manifests at the very beginning,
>> so that the correct digital signatures can be computed during download.
>
> A JAR file is a Zip file.
>
Actually, no they aren't.
If you read the JAR specification, the actual format of the archive
is NOT specified. Only the existance of the manifest file & directory and
it's content.
It is only by existing usage that currently available .jar files
happen to use the ZIP archiving format.
Leonard
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