| From: | g'o'tz ohnesorge |
| Date: | 3 Sep 2000 at 20:54:03 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Compressed archive formats |
Matthew Kille wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Is Amiga going to decide on a 'preferred' archive format?
>
> Looking through the contributions to ftp.amiga.com lists, there are so many
> different formats in use, zip, tgz, lha, bzip2, etc., that it can be a bit
> of a pain remembering which command/arguments need to be used to extract
> the files you want.
>
> The Aminet, with its consistant use of lha, (my personal favourite), is far
> more helpful, whereas the ftp.amiga.com lists just look messy in
> comparison.
There's a good reason for using .zip : Elate supports that "native", as a file
system, so you don't even need to unpack it for using the files inside.
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