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saulpw ◴[] No.43539930[source]
Cool! I made a multithreaded version about 10 years that works for binary files like .zip files: https://github.com/century-arcade/src/tree/master/tools/vain...
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keepamovin ◴[] No.43542711[source]
Cool! How do you handle internal checks in the files? How does overwriting 8 zeroes not break stuff?
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saulpw ◴[] No.43548335[source]
Well it was intended/used to fill out a .zip file comment section, so those 8 zeroes were ignored anyway.
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1. keepamovin ◴[] No.43553231[source]
Smart!