Re: breadboarding fast, tiny stuff

Jeroen Belleman wrote:
Joerg wrote:

Then it may be ok but it sure will trigger a questions from clients like "What's that?". Why do we need a myriad of formats when there is zip?



I think the real question is: Why do we need myriad formats when we
have tar? It probably predates them all. All those young whipper-
snappers keep re-inventing the wheel. Oh well.

Jeroen Belleman

(Now let's have some archive format history...)

Tar is not a compressed format--zip dates from the days of 360k floppies, remember!

Cheers,

Phil Hobbs
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