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Skriven 2007-04-16 21:16:36 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.0)
  Kommentar till text 10000 av Maurice Kinal (1:140/13)
Ärende: Disappointed
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 ml> damn, i still don't see how zip equates to DOS-think... i mean, 
 ml> geez... it does both, archiving and compression just the same way 
 ml> that the, approved by you, bzip and gzip stuff does...

 MK> I never said I approve of gzip or bzip.  As for comparison to zip,
 MK> both gzip and bzip are compression only as opposed to zip which is
 MK> both archiving and compression.

what's the real difference in the real world??

 MK> If I were to favour any I'd be forced to go with either gzip 
 MK> and/or bzip simply because they are more Unix-think in design 
 MK> simply because they aren't trying to do everything which zip does, 

please forgive but i'm still missing the problem...

as an example, i like TAR but i detest that i also have to pipe its output to a
compression program... why? because i can get more in the same space with
compression... what's wrong with that? why should i have to use two programs to
reach the same ideal? 

 MK> and I already have and use tar which I've used since before zip 
 MK> was ever heard or seen anywhere simply because it doesn't use 
 MK> compression whatsoever to archive.  Whether any or all are any 
 MK> good or better then the others at lossless compression I never 
 MK> said.

but if you are speaking of strictly compression, then you'd appear to be
speaking of such ar zip or others like rar, lzh or even arc...

 MK> I did say I don't use or want zip files and that is true.  

then whay would you prefer?

 MK> I also said my own stuff is seldom compressed, if indeed I do use 
 MK> compression and in those cases usually use gzip but sometimes 
 MK> bzip2, but in most of those cases it has to do with ttylinux 
 MK> packaging.

 ml> what the heck am i missing???

 MK> I give up.  What are you missing?  Maybe raw data?

no.. more to do with trying to understand your acrophobias of using zip and
apparently other similar utils??

maybe it is a baser usage of available tools?

)\/(ark

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