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- Top ten reasons why the DMS archive format sucks:
- 10. All recent DMS versions contain (1.51 and above) contain pirated
- code.
- 9. DMS 1.11, the last legal version, does not verify what it writes
- to disk.
- 8. DMS spreads boot block viruses.
- 7. DMS is all or nothing. You can't view what's inside an archive,
- nor can you extract only one part in the archive.
- 6. DMS forces you to split everything up in 880K chunks. Ever tried
- to DMS a 3 meg animation?
- 5. It supports no HD diskettes. Even worse, tho, would be if it did.
- Imagine the chaos, "anybody got a HD floppy drive for me to unpack
- that demo?" even from people with tons of diskspace on harddisk.
- 4. There is no UNIX/MSDOS/anything version of it. If you got a DMS
- archive on a non-Amiga system, you're stuck.
- 3. It decompresses more slowly than LhA.
- 2. It compresses worse than LhA.
- 1. It allows for trackloaders. Hey guys, the stone age is over.
- According to my survey, 96% of the users of Aminet have a
- harddisk, and the *don't* want to reboot 20 times to see
- 10 demos (boot into demo, then boot back into the system).
- Nor do they want a stunning transfer speed of 20K/sec. Or
- any diskettes, for that matter.
- Bonus resons:
- - Many DMS files contain Workbench files, which is illegal.
- - DMS sometimes calls an archive OK when you test it, but fails to
- extract it.
- - DMS perfectly copies all the read errors that were on the original
- disk.
- - DMS 1.11 has enforcer hits
- - DMS forces you to chop up everything in 880K chunks. Ever tried to
- pack a 3 meg animation using DMS?
- - DMS files can't be virus tested on Aminet (LhA files can)
- - DMS can't be aborted using ^C when it's asking for a disk
- - DMS files often include all required libs etc. so you get the same
- reqtools.library dozens of times.
- - DMS files in most cases contain no HD installation scripts.
- - There is no (legal) file system that treats DMS files like
- directories.
- - DMS games and demos can't be started directly off Aminet CD.
- - People want to use *one* archiver for everything.
- Now if that ain't enough...
- -Urban Mueller, Aminet admin
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