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  Re: Which archive format?  
From: triple r
Date: 7 Apr 2009 09:25:01
Message: <web.49db539f2fbdbb5d63a1b7c30@news.povray.org>
"Jim Holsenback" <jho### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> After looking at:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIP_(file_format)
>
> Its seems that zip format of one flavour or another is supported across all
> the platforms that POV cares about.
> I'm good to go with win/linux/unix, but like I said mac .... well the wiki
> article eluded to support being added to later versions of mac os.

Mac OS is unix, so whatever works for one should mostly be fine for the other.
I see usually see tar archives compressed with gzip or bzip2, but zip archives
work fine too.  Thanks for checking rather than assuming though.  Nothing
beats, "Thanks for sending that file... what do I do with it?"

 - Ricky


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