Re: MHonArc: The reason that .zip no longer available

2000-02-17 Thread Gerry Hickman
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

Re: MHonArc: The reason that .zip no longer available

2000-02-17 Thread Earl Hood
On February 18, 2000 at 00:34, Gerry Hickman wrote: 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,