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The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins
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The author touches on this near the beginning-
So they're treating them like archives and extracting them
Everything is just a zip file with a different extension
Seriously though, it's been some time be afaik any microsoft product file that ends in x, .docx, .xlsx, .pbix are all just archives and you can totally interact with them programmatically if you want. Really easy to corrupt them but hey, found it interesting years ago.
I take issue with "everything", as most things are not. But it is a common trick when a developer wants to make a "new" file format that encapsulates a bunch of different files.
Everything, including you, is a .zip file.
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Transcription is just unzipping your coding
It's just .zip files all the way down
I just came here to say stuffit.