On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 07:40:09PM +0100, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: > By the way, since this is the discussion list, why is OpenOffice.org using > the .zip format? Since it is Open Source, wouldn't .tar.bz be a better > choice? > Both implementations are opensource. Zip is an archive format that (optionally) compresses content individually, tar+[bzip2|gzip] is a compressed archive. Makes a difference for ease of implementation & speed of access.
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