Hello Earl,

> I would like to phase out the use of .zip for the following
> main reason: it is less efficient at compressing data than
> the other formats.  The .zip file is always around 60% larger
> than tar/gz.

Personally I think it's a bad idea, especially as creating a zip is very
quick and easy. To me, standards are more important than size but then I
guess it could be argued that "tar" is more standard than zip anyway...

-- 
Gerry Hickman (London UK)
http://www.gerry1.dircon.co.uk/

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