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Originally Posted by StingRay
Comments are a file-system feature, they will not change the checksum of a file as the content of the file does not change. You can easily try this yourself on Amiga:
Calculate the checksum of a file without comment, then add a comment to that file and perform the checksum calculation again, the result will be the same. 
See autodocs for SetComment (dos.library) for some more info. |
Confirmed. I learned something new. Thanks StingRay!
I guess lha and lzx are able to store filesystem quirks, whereas zip cannot. Good to know.
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And in case anyone else wants to see the magic of lha and lzx, attached is a screenshot of the contents of lha, lzx and zip files that contain 2 files: "test.txt" which has a comment, and "test2.txt" which does not. Scientific I know
