Zip and GZip archives can store archive comments.
I recommend that you do not use archive comments because...
- The comment does not get saved when the archive is extracted.
- The comment may never be seen by the person extracting the archive.
If you need to comment an archive a much better idea
would be to include a 'readme.txt' file within the archive.
However, if you decide to use archive comments the following points should be noted.
- Comments can only be saved in Zip and GZip archives.
- If the archive is a zip.gzip then the comment will be read from and written to the zip. (Any gzip
comment will not be displayed!)
- Comments are not compressed so using large comments somewhat defeats the purpose of using a compressed archives.
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