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  1. Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!torn!newshost.uwo.ca!sscl.uwo.ca!richardson
  3. From: richardson@sscl.uwo.ca
  4. Subject: ZOO/ZIP etc...RELIABILITY?????
  5. Organization: Social Science Computing Laboratory
  6. Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 13:31:43 GMT
  7. Message-ID: <1992Sep1.093143.1@sscl.uwo.ca>
  8. Sender: news@julian.uwo.ca (USENET News System)
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  12. All the talk concerning the size and spped etc. of different archivers is fine,
  13. but in the long run I want to know which of these formats is the most stable. 
  14. If I go to de-archive some data files 6mos. form now I don't want bad header
  15. errors galore...anyone have any facts on reliability of archivers?  Maybe you
  16. could post if you lost an archive and we could do a very un-scientific poll of
  17. archive reliability.  BTW, i'd always found .lzh the best for size, until.zoo,
  18. and I haven't really looked at .zip.
  19.  
  20.             T.T.F.N.
  21.                     JR.
  22.  
  23. +--------------------------------+ +---------------------------------------+ 
  24. | John Richardson                | | "An animal psychologist is a person   | 
  25. | Dept. of Psychology            | |   who pulls habits out of rats!"      | 
  26. | University of Western Ontario, | |                                       | 
  27. | London, Ontario                | |                     - ANON.           | 
  28. | CANADA                         | +-+-------------------------------------+ 
  29. +--------------------------------+ +-*-+- +--------------------------------+  
  30. +------------------------------------+--+ | The preceding opinions do not  | 
  31. |  e-mail: RICHARDSON@VAXR.SSCL.UWO.CA  | |  necessarily reflect those of  | 
  32. |                                       | |  the Dept. of Psychology, or   |
  33. |        phone:  (519) 657-5102         | |  UWO...unless by coincidence!! |
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