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/
