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[Jim Leonard]

Jules Richardson wrote:
> If it *is* portable, it might seem a better choice for archives over
> tar, simply because more systems these days can handle zip files than
> can handle tar files...

"Portable" is in the eye of the beholder.  Both formats don't support sizes 
over 4 gigabytes (unsigned 32-bit dword) so I don't use them any more.
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