| From: | Asaf |
| Date: | 4 Sep 2000 at 13:09:38 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Compressed archive formats |
g'o'tz ohnesorge 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.
> >
My point exactly, I believe this is going "against" consistancy &
userfriendlyness.
We need to eliminate this before it gets *worse*.
Come on Amiga Inc, set some rules or guidelines.
Later, Asaf
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