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.

Cheers,

-- Thorsten


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