18 May
2005
18 May
'05
1:44 p.m.
From: "Jim Leonard" <trixter at
oldskool.org>
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For years I've used RAR (WinRAR for windows, RAR
and RAR32 for
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Hi
It seems that may of you are missing the point. The archives
are intended to be useable in say 500 years ( moved to
future media ). Any proprietary application like WinRAR
is useless for this purpose.
I use ZIP files all the time but I would not use any of
this stuff for the purpose of archiving. I surely wouldn't
even consider a window application for archiving.
Even things like error correction need to have their
descriptions in the archive file. Do you expect to package
a X86 simulator and WinRAR into a HTML like format with
each of these compressed files? Back to reality folks!
Dwight