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I only use zip because zip won. There exist other better archive formats, but what matters for me is availability of tooling, every OS has a zip implementation
by tored 5y ago
I only use zip because zip won. There exist other better archive formats, but what matters for me is availability of tooling, every OS has a zip implementation and every major programming language has zip library.
But one good thing that RAR has is recovery records to protect against data corruption, nice feature for a long term archiving format. Not sure if other formats have this too.
- account42 5y ago> But one good thing that RAR has is recovery records to protect against data corruption, nice feature for a long term archiving format. Not sure if other formats have this too. This can be done with any format by having an additional .par2 file for the recovery information. [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive