zip (was: Re: Disk archival techniques)

[Dwight K. Elvey]

>From: "Jim Leonard" <trixter at oldskool.org>
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>I see people on the thread complaining about having to bundle a
>windows emulator with each archive.  Excuse me?  Let's look at some
>popular formats:  TAR, ZIP, RAR all have source-code unarchivers.
>Which means they can run on any machine with a C compiler.  So
>what's with all the paranoia?  Just use whatever works as long as
>more than one major platform can extract it.
>

Hi
 We then have a library with the one key. If it just happens to be
that key that gets lost, and keys do get lost, we call the
lock smith and hope he can unlock it.
 Maybe I'm just thinking a little beyond where you are at. Extra
levels are not good. I can't find a way to make it any clearer
than that.
 If you've ever spent some time actually recovering corrupted
data you'd understand.
Dwight