Re: Backups, best practices

Beau Lebens wrote: > > // err.. please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't pkzip > // exactly that? or more > // exactly, winzip is a windows interface to it? it certainly > // uses the same > // compression.... > > nope - you're right, i forgot about pkzip, but i was just saying that it's > pretty strange that winzip is the biggest compression program used for > windoze machines and they haven't released their own command-line version... > last i heard it was still in the piplelines. and they probably never will... winzip took the opportunity that PKWARE didnt. winzip released a win interface to the ZIP compression scheme that Phil Katz wrote. and PKWARE never caught up to the popularity that winzip took. sadly, he died of alcoholic reasons. most people never knew him yet his code will live for a long time. trivia: the first two bytes of the any valid zip file? P and K... here's a frief history of the man: http://www.computeraddicts.com/pkzip.htm kinda sad, when i read in a PC MAG article a month or so ago when they celebrated 10 or so people that shaped the PC industry (or was influencial) in the last 20 years. one of persons is the porn king of the internet, and PK is left out... > > pkzip is made by a different company i think > -- Leo G. Divinagracia III ldivinag@csuhayward.edu