Hi Michiel,

On 2018-02-05 15:44:00, you wrote to me:

 WV>> Some people still prefer compressed:

 MvdV> I see another more general disadvantage of compression for long time
 MvdV> storage. You will still need the decompressor for reading. In a couple
of
 MvdV> decades that compression method may be obsolete.

As you always say predicting the future is hard. But (un)zip has been available
for decades, and has always been backwards compatible. So I'm not worried there
won't be an unzip program in a couple of decades. The same could be said about
ascii, maybe that will be replaced by something incompatible in the future...
Almost as unlikely as zip.

 MvdV> I already have a problem with the LZH on the pre 1996 archives on
 MvdV> eljaco.se.

Lha is available on many linux distributions...


Bye, Wilfred.

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