| From: | Lee Bosch |
| Date: | 3 Sep 2000 at 22:14:21 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Compressed archive formats |
On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, g'o'tz ohnesorge wrote:
> > Is Amiga going to decide on a 'preferred' archive format?
> 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.
My only preference is that if a standardized format is chosen, that it
not be one of the "compound" formats that requires multiple programs to
"undo". For this reason, I would support either LhA or zip with a leaning
towards zip if for no other reason than it assumes a file extension (which
I hope that we all eventually get away from needing) and some more
reasonable defaults with respect to recursing directories.
Lee Bosch
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