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[Jim Leonard]

On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 10:54:41PM -0400, der Mouse wrote:
> 
> > You'll be creating files that can only be extracted with your
> > version.
> 
> And this is different from using rar, or zip, or whatever, how?  You
> *always* need a program to read the format in question (or docs enough
> to produce such a program).  The only difference I can see is the
> wideness of spread of the format and/or programs to read it, and if

Exactly.  People would get a file ending in .tar and have no idea
they can't extract it until it's too late.

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