zip (was: Re: Disk archival techniques)

[Dwight K. Elvey]

>From: "Randy McLaughlin" <cctalk at randy482.com>
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>I have some archives that are archives of archives and intend to go back and 
>extract the original archives into un-packaged treed directories then 
>repackage into just a zip format so that future users don't have to figure 
>out the zip format to then have to figure out the myriad of CP/M 
>packaging/squeeze formats.
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>

Hi Randy
 What you are doing is great! Don't get me wrong. All
I'm saying is that archiving shouldn't be making it harder
to read. As you have just stated yourself, some older
obsolete formats are a pain. Even zip will be obsolete
someday ( not today ).
 You seem to be confusing the distribution of information
with archiving. These are completely different problems.
You don't need to defend you methods of distribution
with me. I don't know if I could do any better.
Dwight