Compress OS X Mountain Lion.app (10.8.4)

Cannot compress Install OS X Mountain Lion.app (10.8.4).  No errors reported during compression but always results in corrupt InstallESD.dmg file.  Bug in Archive Utility??? Using both UnArchiver and Archive Utility to uncompress with same results...

David M Brewer wrote:
Never had a problem making  zip file  for use on my Mac in all these years. If your not sending these apps to someone over the internet, zip files will work just fine.
I have personally lost data by storing it in zip files. There is no such thing as a standard zip file format. There are dozens of variants. Among those are a number of different ways to store Mac resource data and metadata. The Zip variant that OS X creates with the "compress" feature has, itself, changed a couple of times. There is no guarantee that a Mac file put into a zip file will be recoverable in the future.
If is safe to use Finder's compress, upload, download, decompress for zip files. You can't mix in any other zip tool. Nor will there be any guarantee of extracting the original in five years. The entire zip file format(s) is(are) a hack and hacks have no place in archives.
The DMG format goes back to OS X 1 (and possibly earlier). I have had more problems with DMG file (probably because of damage resourse forks which OSX no loger uses.) I'm sure Apple has over the years updated this and that to the DMG file format. Way back when in the 90's we had a heck of a time getting a uncorrupted zip files over the internt. That when Apple came out with the DMG file format (I believe it had another name).
I have never had a problem with DMG files nor with the older IMG files. I have DMG files that are over 10 years old and open with no problem.
I trust Apple more than Phil Katz.

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