zip (was: Re: Disk archival techniques)

[Jim Leonard]

On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 05:28:45PM +0000, Jules Richardson wrote:
> I still don't like munging native binary data into some other format
> though for the sake of preservation; I'd rather treat that as binary and
> provide metadata / indexing alongside it, or in a seperate section or
> whatever.

I agree 100%.  I've done this for all of my data and it has proven,
for me, to be the easist way to translate information across
platforms.
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