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29 Jul 2024 22:23:25 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Software engineering  
From: Alain
Date: 9 Aug 2011 15:21:50
Message: <4e4188ce$1@news.povray.org>
Le 2011/08/09 05:03, Invisible a écrit :
> On 04/08/2011 05:14 PM, Darren New wrote:
>
>> There's a reason people still use the ZIP format and not 101 other
>> formats that compress better.
>
> I believe it's called "compatibility".
>
> /Everything/ understands the Zip format, even if it /is/ sucky (for more
> reasons than just the compression ratios).

Also, there are just so many various archives and packages that are 
realy ZIPs with a special extention...
I just can't count them all, as I regularly stumble across new "formats" 
that are just renamed ZIPs.


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