On Sun, 17 Jan 1999, Doug wrote: What are you talking about? The whole aversion to using CD's was the fact that they have a theoretical shelf life of only 50-100 years. Like I said, the Dead Sea scrolls lasted more than two millenia without much thought going into how to preserve them. And here you are talking about going thru the trouble of filling a chamber with inert gasses to promote preservation. Unless your line of thinking is to fill the chamber with water just to give paper a challenge. Paper has passed the test of time. You can go into antique book shops and find volumes hundreds of years old that are still very readable and very intact. CDs, on the other hand, have only been with us a couple decades. 100 copies on what? 100 other EPROMs? On CD? Or encoded on paper? Sellam Alternate e-mail:

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