On Wednesday 30 July 2003 21:48, Tracy R Reed wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 03:44:40PM -0500, Richard Reveley spake thusly:
> > saved, I don't care about CPU cycles used, all I care about is ease of
> > use and that would add unnecesary layers of complexity. It seems that
>
> bzip is just as easy to use as gzip. They work exactly the same. What's
> the problem?

Similarly pkzip is no easier or more difficult to use than tar or bzip2.

> Although I still say containers are a bad idea.

I tend to agree, but if they are limited to, say, 128KB, I can see that their 
benefit/harm ratio might improve to the point where it is acceptable.

Gordan
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