(e.g. used for ZIP files).
The patch includes code that says:
+ Copyright (C) 1986 Gary S. Brown. You may use this program, or
+ code or tables extracted from it, as desired without restriction.
My interpretation (and Jim's) is that Gary S Brown has no claims under
copyright, patent or other rights or interests. Lawyers might disagree.
reformatted.)
- Illegal padding is now ignored. (Recommendation by GvR.)
- Padding no longer removes characters from data string (resulting in
lost data/strings with negative lengths).
- Illegal characters outside the ASCII range are now ignored, instead
of possibly being remapped to a valid character.
Not sure why this is generated, but this fixes a problem with a
particular file that was received with the following final line:
F-WE<-*A5]AY]%7>8'&!!(_Y<F*55_"*%46"<OFG=>_5(F/\'``!@