12 Aug
2004
12 Aug
'04
7:23 a.m.
On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Antonio Carlini wrote:
If reliable retrieval in the future is of no concern,
then I propose a format conisting of an empty file.
At least you'll be certain of what you get :-)
Seriously, after all the discussion of bit-rot on
various media, how can you consider some sort of
checksum to be anything other than essential?
Some sort of error-correcting code might be an
even better idea.
I've considered that the spec should include the ability to encode in
several different DEFINED formats, using different DEFINED checksum
schemes.
An error-correcting CRC scheme would definitely be one.
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