19 May
2005
19 May
'05
10:18 a.m.
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 10:54:41PM -0400, der Mouse wrote:
Exactly. People would get a file ending in .tar and have no idea
they can't extract it until it's too late.
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You'll be creating files that can only be
extracted with your
version.
And this is different from using rar, or zip, or whatever, how? You
*always* need a program to read the format in question (or docs enough
to produce such a program). The only difference I can see is the
wideness of spread of the format and/or programs to read it, and if