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- From: craig@yonder.equinox.gen.nz (Craig Shore)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: ZOO/ZIP etc...RELIABILITY?????
- Message-ID: <H.CkmTqe&2YO6@yonder.equinox.gen.nz>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 06:03:18 GMT
- References: Re: ZOO/ZIP etc...RELIABILITY?????
- Reply-To: craig@yonder.equinox.gen.nz
- Organization: Equinox Networks, ChCh, New Zealand * Private Node: Yonder
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- X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.03 Rev. Apr 14 1992
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- In <1992Sep1.093143.1@sscl.uwo.ca>, richardson@sscl.uwo.ca writes:
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- >All the talk concerning the size and spped etc. of different archivers is fine,
- >but in the long run I want to know which of these formats is the most stable.
- >If I go to de-archive some data files 6mos. form now I don't want bad header
- >errors galore...anyone have any facts on reliability of archivers? Maybe you
- >could post if you lost an archive and we could do a very un-scientific poll of
- >archive reliability. BTW, i'd always found .lzh the best for size, until.zoo,
- >and I haven't really looked at .zip.
-
- What difference does time make to an archive? Surley the only thing that
- could cause it to go bad overe time would be the media that it is stored on?
-
- Craig.
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