Re: RFP: CompoundStorage document

From: Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>
To: Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <rms 1407 org>
Cc: gnome-office-list gnome org
Subject: Re: RFP: CompoundStorage document
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 14:57:31 -0400

On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 05:55:48PM +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
> 
> I was originally in favour of .tar.gz's, because of better compression
> but the advantages of using zip files over tar.gz's more than compensate
> files just a teensy bigger.

the main advantage is that there are lot of tools available for
manipulating zip files.  The goal here is to allow tools _other_
than the main applications to generate these files.

References:
- Re: RFP: CompoundStorage document
  - From: Martin Sevior
- Re: RFP: CompoundStorage document
  - From: Rui Miguel Silva Seabra

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