zip (was: Re: Disk archival techniques)

[Randy McLaughlin]

From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf at siconic.com>
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 7:49 PM


> 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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So many people don't like that I post self extracting archives but at least 
it is currently usable by the largest population and there is a better 
chance when everything including the tools to extract it are all in one 
file.


Randy
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