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ubinary type in Perforce

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What is this file type exactly and how does it differ from binary?

It seems to be automatically assigned to .zip and .jar files.

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ᅙᄉᅙ Avatar asked Aug 23 '12 08:08

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It turns out ubinary means uncompressed binary, and this makes sense since trying to further compress a .zip or .jar is pointless.

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ᅙᄉᅙ Avatar answered Sep 30 '22 05:09

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