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Hi!

21-Авг-2002 21:01 dj AT delorie DOT com (DJ Delorie) wrote to opendos AT delorie DOT com:

>> Perhaps RAR "solid" archives?
DD> Consider portability and popularity of the formats.  Zip is most
DD> common and popular.  I think tar.gz and tar.bz2 are next.

     Not bz2. Although .tar.gz my be accepted (there exists utilities for
DOS, which require small resources), but bzip2 is not so widespread and
requires much-much more resources (whereas RAR3 anyway remains better).
Consequently, I range this so (don't forget about compatability with DOS
and old machines):

1. ZIP
2. TGZ, RAR2/16, RAR2/386
3. ARJ, LHA (LZH), ...
...
n. RAR3 (better), tar.bz2 (probably, wider on *ix).
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