zip (was: Re: Disk archival techniques)

[Paul Koning]

>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org> writes:

 Jim> Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
 >> 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.

 Jim> I think that *you* are missing the point that *no* archive can
 Jim> last that long except maybe paper. 

There are others.  See www.longnow.org.

      paul