At 09:36 AM 3/21/2006, Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote:
Why not simply put all this stuff into a tar file?

        Mostly because tar is not the "standard" that ZIP is.

        I mean this in two ways.  First, the marketing/recognition one.

But more important the second - there are multiple (incompatible!) versions of tar floating around out there, while zip has remained (to the detriment of needed improvements) static.


LDR

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