Sandip Bhattacharya wrote:
> At 05:23 AM 12/21/2002 +0000, you wrote: > >If anyone else has some more daredevil tricks for > >floppies let me know as I always keep running into bad > >floppies. > > I believe that it is better to use the tar.gz format for storing compressed > files. One, it provides better compression than zip. > 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. > Correction zip stores all the info at the end of archive, RAR does it in the beginning TAR, does it indv. and gz does it in the begining like RAR. so damage to the end of archive, means RAR, tar, tar,gz is better extracts till the damaged part, When it is starting of archive, anything happens doomed you are.... In zip anything happens to end, waste, unless use some kinda zipfix. used pkzipfix in old DOS days Bu > > - Sandip > > --- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Sandip Bhattacharya > Puroga Technologies > Work: sandip <@> puroga.com, http://www.puroga.com > Play: sandipb <@> bigfoot.com, http://www.sandipb.net > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ================================================ > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject >header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org -- Regards Jaswinder Singh Kohli [EMAIL PROTECTED] :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: The Uni(multi)verse is a figment of its own imagination. -=- When you are courting a nice girl, an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinde, a second seems like an hour. That's relativity. Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-American
