zip (was: Re: Disk archival techniques)

This may be a problem with some implementations; it is not a problem with the format. (The non-ASCII bit I'm not sure of; I certainly can't think of anything that would prevent non-ASCII filenames from working. And spaces in the filename the format has no problem with - though there are a depressing number of broken tar implementations out there; see Elizabeth Zwicky's little piece about torture-testing backup programs. As a minor plug, my tar gets the Zwicky tests about as right as possible, I believe.) True. But I *do* think it reasonable to damn an archiver because it runs *only* on a certain platform - especially if the format itself is closed enough to preclude implementations on other platforms. Note that I do not claim that any of the archivers mentioned by name upthread fit this description. The few of them that I know do not, but I don't know about the rest. /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse at rodents.montreal.qc.ca / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B