Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 04, 2007 12:37 AM
Just say no to all these splinter formats! Plain old zip is supported by all platforms including *nix, VMS, MSDOS, OS/2, Windows all, Minix, Atari, Macintosh, OS X, Amiga, Acorn, RISC OS. Plain old zip has good compression. Plain old zip has supported splitting into multiple files from day one.
Gaining an additional ~2% compression on certain files is really not that big of a deal, especially when universal compatibility is lost. I see no major advantage in these newer formats that zip hasn't had since 1984.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 04, 2007 12:37 AMPlain old zip is supported by all platforms including *nix, VMS, MSDOS, OS/2, Windows all, Minix, Atari, Macintosh, OS X, Amiga, Acorn, RISC OS.
Plain old zip has good compression.
Plain old zip has supported splitting into multiple files from day one.
Gaining an additional ~2% compression on certain files is really not that big of a deal, especially when universal compatibility is lost. I see no major advantage in these newer formats that zip hasn't had since 1984.
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