Scott David Daniels wrote: > Edward Elliott wrote: >> Scott David Daniels wrote: >>>... > > ... You windows kids and your crazy data formats. > There were a few oth OS's than Linux and Windows. Maybe you > should call me "you crazy Tenex kid."
Windows popularized the zip format, but if you insist: You crazy Tenex kids, with your char-at-a-time raw password checking and new-fangled virtual memory. Back in my day, all we had was Multics and we liked it that way. Despite having no memory prior to the Apple II, I do know a bit of history. > Knuth says, "the fastest > way to search is to know where to go." -- Zips have locations of > files, and you needn't read in a lot of a huge zip to find and > extract a couple of files. You whippersnappers and your random access, always in such a hurry to get your data. You want faster search, just wait a few machine generations. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list