Tobias Bocanegra schrieb:
well, it seems that they use now .sar as new extension:
"In the past SAP developed the tool and named it CAR. The extensions
of all compressed files were named ".CAR" as well. In SAP release 4.6C
SAP decided to enhance the functionality of the CAR utility a bit.
Therefore, the internal structure of the compressed files slightly
changed. Because of this, it was necessary to create a new extension.
There the new extension ".SAR" was born and the new utility was named
SAPCAR."
however, finding a suitable, not used extension is almost impossible
(http://filext.com/detaillist.php?extdetail=car&Search=Search). using
.car seemed to be to most obvious and least known in the j2ee/java
world.
Point taken, but maybe it may make sense to consider to longer
extensions, such as "jcrcar".
Unrelated to that...:
- use a standard format for the archive (i.e. zip/jar)
If you use ZIP/JAR as format, how are you going to handle non-ASCII
characters in filenames in a portable way?
Best regards, Julian
