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[Jim Leonard]

Jules Richardson wrote:
> I've always used tar for archives myself (well, last ten years anyway)
> as I know they'd work across platforms. It's just that since someone
> pointed out that zip does have a "no compression" option I thought I'd
> ask list wisdom on its suitability. Seems that:
> 
>   a) There are questions over the open-ness of the spec

ZIP is 100% completely wide open.  I remember Phil Katz himself donated 
donating the specs to the BBS community.  There was never any question as to 
whether or not the format was meant to be documented.

>   b) Tar's still better at error recovery due to seperate headers per
> file

Yes, but RAR is better than both of them :-) because neither ZIP nor TAR 
contain any form of ECC.
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