[lug] [OT] archive formats

[Paul E Condon]

On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 02:39:46PM -0700, Calvin Dodge wrote:
> On 3/28/06, Daniel Webb <lists at danielwebb.us> wrote:
> >
> > Is there such a thing as an archive format that is recognized without
> > additional software on most installs of Windows, Linux, and Mac?
> 
> Well, IIRC zip handling wasn't built into Windows until XP. I suppose
> XP has been out long enough to count as "most installs".
> 
>  If the desire is "cross-platform without additional software", I
> think zip comes closest to satisfying that desire.  I don't think it
> handles *nix features like symbolic links, but those aren't
> cross-platform filesystem features.
> 
> I'm relatively ignorant of Mac software availability, but suspect that
> the OS/X shell has zip/unzip available, even if the GUI doesn't.
> 

OS/X does have zip/gzip/bzip and tar as part of Darwin.

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