>>>>> "WJGO" == William J G Overington <[email protected]> writes:
WJGO> I was thinking about the problems of the long-term archiving of WJGO> electronic text documents and thought of an idea. I wonder if I WJGO> may please mention the idea here in the hope of there being a WJGO> discussion so that an assessment of whether the idea is worth WJGO> developing can be made. Forward error correction (FEC) is an important tool for long term archiving, but I suspect it is better done at a string or document level than at the character level. I'd suggest looking at tools like http://parchive.sourceforge.net/ and a windows implementation thereof at http://www.quickpar.org.uk/ for a tool for FEC. -JimC -- James Cloos <[email protected]> OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6
