zip (was: Re: Disk archival techniques)

[Tony Duell]

> In this case best means a format understood by the majority.

Jsut becasue something is popular doesn't mean it's well understood. I'll 
bet most people who use Winzip or whatever haven't a clue as to what a 
zip file actually consists of.

> 
> In the future ZIP formats will be better understood than any other current 
> format for the simple reason there are more zip files to examine than any 
> other.

But I'll bet now that more people understand the internals of linux than 
understand the internals of Windows, because the former is 'open' and 
documented, the latter isn't. Even though there are many more Windows 
machines than linux machines :-(

-tony