At 05:23 AM 12/21/2002 +0000, you wrote:
I believe that it is better to use the tar.gz format for storing compressed files. One, it provides better compression than zip.If anyone else has some more daredevil tricks for floppies let me know as I always keep running into bad floppies.
And, I might be wrong with the second reason that is the zip file format is more suceptible to damages - mostly
because of its file format - all archive information are at a block at the beginning of the file, while tar stores individual information
before each file.
- Sandip
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