>> Thank you Osamu but I stress that compression / decompression time is >> not important for this application. That is why I asked on the list >> what the other advantages and disadvantages of the different formats >> are. > > Hmmm.... then stick with tar.gz since it is supported > everywhere on unix. > > There are tools for interoperability and native tools. ... >
That was my first inclination but I really would like to have the redundancies or rar. I think that 7zip supports this, I am looking into it. I may just add 7zip support. 7zip is FOSS, too, so that is good. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org