zip (was: Re: Disk archival techniques)

[Dwight K. Elvey]

>From: "Jim Leonard" <trixter at oldskool.org>
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>  For years I've used RAR (WinRAR for windows, RAR and RAR32 for 
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Hi
 It seems that may of you are missing the point. The archives
are intended to be useable in say 500 years ( moved to
future media ). Any proprietary application like WinRAR
is useless for this purpose.
 I use ZIP files all the time but I would not use any of
this stuff for the purpose of archiving. I surely wouldn't
even consider a window application for archiving.
 Even things like error correction need to have their
descriptions in the archive file. Do you expect to package
a X86 simulator and WinRAR into a HTML like format with
each of these compressed files? Back to reality folks!
Dwight