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Old 11-25-2014, 09:23 PM   #1372
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Originally Posted by knc1 View Post
As far as I know, that was just me sounding off about not using licensed, for-fee archivers.

* The de-compressor(s) is(are) Open Source but some of the compression routines remain closed and licensed.
Good enough for me.
I meant the Kindle Developers Corner subforum.

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What we **should** do is get that list of acceptable filename extensions updated.
Lots of luck with that, I haven't heard from Alex for over a year.

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Valid file extensions: avi azw azw2 azw3 bat bin bmp bz2 doc enews epub gif gz hsc imp ipk ixl jar jpe jpeg jpg kml lit lrf mobi opf pdb pdf pl pm png prc psd rar rtf sdl site sxl tar txt xml xpi zip
The size is somewhat of an issue though -- for a set of archive formats, it is bizarre that ZIP and RAR have a 20 MB cap, GZ has a 15 MB cap, and BZ2 has a 5 MB cap!!!

Good luck contacting him. He has posted in response to the server migration, in the announcements subforum.

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