20 May
2005
20 May
'05
4:58 p.m.
Jules Richardson wrote:
I've always used tar for archives myself (well,
last ten years anyway)
as I know they'd work across platforms. It's just that since someone
pointed out that zip does have a "no compression" option I thought I'd
ask list wisdom on its suitability. Seems that:
a) There are questions over the open-ness of the spec
ZIP is 100% completely wide open. I remember Phil Katz himself donated
donating the specs to the BBS community. There was never any question as to
whether or not the format was meant to be documented.
b) Tar's still better at error recovery due to
seperate headers per
file
Yes, but RAR is better than both of them :-) because neither ZIP nor TAR
contain any form of ECC.
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