Re: breadboarding fast, tiny stuff

"Joerg" <notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Same reason as with video storage formats and such. Whatever wins in the
marketplace is going to be used in industry. And us consultants must use
what industry uses.

"tar" also doesn't do any compression whatsoever -- it just packs everything
together into one file ("Tape ARchive"). The more contemporary *NIX file
format is .tgz ("tarred and then gZiped").

If you really want to go non-mainstream, formats such as .ace (WinAce) can
often gain an additional, say, 10% over Zip.

---Joel


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