From: joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman) Subject: Re: ANSWER: (Re: GCC report segmentation fault and dump core.) Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 13:13:53 GMT
In article <1992Oct12.145332.22468@crd.ge.com> davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
>Now that info-zip has released 1.9, there are some good technical
>reasons why using zip would be better than compressed tars:
> 1. files are smaller
> 2. you have a CRC and can tell right away when something is munged
> 3. Since you can tell which file is munged you have a prayer of
> getting someone to send you just that file.
Does ZIP preserve file attributes? If not, I would suggest, for people
who are really concerned about archive size, ZIP'd .tar files. Of
course, that won't take advantage of (3).
-Joel
(joel@wam.umd.edu)