| From: | Daniel Adler |
| Date: | 4 Sep 2000 at 00:42:29 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Compressed archive formats |
On Sun, 03 Sep 2000, you wrote:
>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.
Short note: On BeOS, with its fantastic database-oriented filing-system where
you can store attributes (as a feature inside the file-system), the only choice
there is the .zip format, which is able to carry these "non-standard" stuff
out.
Maybe, we will adopt a native-filesystem which has similar features as BFS has,
so we know, zip can handle this.
Zip is also the format of choice for JAR-Files (java archiv).