Support legacy ZIP compression methods (for decompression at least)
libarchive and zlib don't support legacy (pre-DEFLATED) ZIP compression methods (in particular, the "implode" method - method #6 (closed)). But it can be done:
https://www.hanshq.net/zip2.html https://github.com/jsummers/oldunzip/
This would allow the extraction and viewing or subsequent download of archived files from legacy ZIP files.
Whether this is done as a patch to zlib or libarchive or something internal to sbbs, it seems totally doable.
Edited by Rob Swindell