zip (was: Re: Disk archival techniques)

[Vintage Computer Festival]

On Thu, 19 May 2005, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:

>  The Idea of an archive is to try to minimize the interdependencies.
> The archive should include the zip, rar and tar information.
> That doesn't mean that the archive should depend on them.

Very well said.

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