19 May
2005
19 May
'05
10:55 a.m.
From: "Jim Leonard" <trixter at
oldskool.org>
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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.
Hi
We then have a library with the one key. If it just happens to be
that key that gets lost, and keys do get lost, we call the
lock smith and hope he can unlock it.
Maybe I'm just thinking a little beyond where you are at. Extra
levels are not good. I can't find a way to make it any clearer
than that.
If you've ever spent some time actually recovering corrupted
data you'd understand.
Dwight
19 May
19 May
11:14 a.m.
On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 10:55:37AM -0700, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
We then have a library with the one key.
There are billions of .ZIP files. I don't think we're going to "lose
the key" any time soon.
Maybe I'm just thinking a little beyond where you
are at. Extra
levels are not good. I can't find a way to make it any clearer
than that.
If you've ever spent some time actually recovering corrupted
data you'd understand.
You're assuming I haven't. And besides, in my RAR example,
recovering corrupted data is actually easier than raw data due to
the use of ECC embedded in the archive. So while you're struggling
for days trying to make sense of mangled flux reversals on some
disk/tape somewhere, I will simply read what I can and ECC the rest
in 30 seconds.
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