Re: KDE compression options: tar, zip, or rar

[Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com>]

>> Thank you Osamu but I stress that compression / decompression time is
>> not important for this application. That is why I asked on the list
>> what the other advantages and disadvantages of the different formats
>> are.
>
> Hmmm....  then stick with tar.gz since it is supported
> everywhere on unix.
>
> There are tools for interoperability and native tools. ...
>

That was my first inclination but I really would like to have the
redundancies or rar. I think that 7zip supports this, I am looking
into it. I may just add 7zip support. 7zip is FOSS, too, so that is
good.


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