18 May
2005
18 May
'05
1:15 p.m.
Jules Richardson wrote:
If it *is* portable, it might seem a better choice for
archives over
tar, simply because more systems these days can handle zip files than
can handle tar files...
"Portable" is in the eye of the beholder. Both formats don't support sizes
over 4 gigabytes (unsigned 32-bit dword) so I don't use them any more.
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