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Re:Why not tar? Limitations of the tar file format. by enneff on Monday September 06, 2010 @06:01AM (#1666360)
"Other archive formats like WinZip..."

The guy immediately loses credibility in my eyes for referring to the most popular archive format as 'WinZip'. It's the ZIP file format, designed by Phil Katz of PKWare Inc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIP_(file_format)

To add injury to insult, the rest of his proposal is pretty similar to ZIP, which also accomplishes the nice-to-have things he mentions at the end.

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Re:Why not tar? Limitations of the tar file format. by bl4k on Monday September 06, 2010 @03:38PM (#1667263)
What this article describes has already been solved with zip, gzip, 7z, bzip and forks of tar

The problem is that at the moment there is no open standard (there are IETF proposals) since each of these is either patent, copyright or trademark encumbered.

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