This one time, at band camp, Mark Brown said:
> As we discussed on IRC zlib only supports the deflate compression method
> which means that it can't cope with anything else.  I guess this version
> of PKZIP either predates deflate or only uses it sometimes.
>
> To reliably uncompress ZIP files I would suggest that ClamAV uses
> info-zip or something (for speed perhaps only doing that if zlib barfs
> on the file).  As indicated in
> 
>    http://www.gzip.org/zlib/zlib_faq.html
> 
> the zlib authors aren't terribly worried about supporting everything
> PKZIP does.

If only info-zip provided a library interface :(

Thanks,
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