19 May
2005
19 May
'05
10:35 a.m.
On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 07:34:24AM -0700, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
*Everything* is a proprietary binary format, and in the grand scheme
of things, compression is simply a binary encoding. That's why I
think damning a certain archiving program/format just because of the
platform it runs onis silly.
I see people on the thread complaining about having to bundle a
windows emulator with each archive. Excuse me? Let's look at some
popular formats: TAR, ZIP, RAR all have source-code unarchivers.
Which means they can run on any machine with a C compiler. So
what's with all the paranoia? Just use whatever works as long as
more than one major platform can extract it.
(Not directed at Sellam, just commenting on all thread participants.)
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You can not plan on what is the next best
archival tool and you can't
please everyone. Use what you have and try to make it so most people can
handle it one way or another.
My suggestion is to stay away from proprietary compressed binary formats.