Re: backup archive format saved to disk
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On 12/07/06 11:26, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 09:16:11AM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 09:02:37PM -0600, Reid Priedhorsky wrote:
>>
[snip]
> I quite agree. But in the absence of error-correction codes,
> uncompressed is batter.
>
> And if your error-correction software ahould happen to be unusable in several
> years, your errors will not be easy to corrected.
That's why you write such s/w in generic ANSI C. (I presume there's
some "strict" switch in g77, too.)
> Did you ever write any code in the 1970's that can't be run any more?
> I did.
Shame on you for not writing in a portable language. Go COBOL!!!
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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