[SignWriting] Need your advice...which compression should I use?

[Ingvild Roald]

Agreed, .zip is preferable.  .exe will start a program running, and is not
good for things other than programs that are to run (at leat, that is how
I understand it),

Ingvild



SW-L at ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA writes:
>On Sun, 11 May 2003, Valerie Sutton <sutton at SIGNWRITING.ORG> wrote:
>
>> Therefore I need to know...what compression software works best for you?
>>
>> ..exe (Windows only)
>> ..zip  (Mac and Windows)
>> ..sit   (Mac and Windows)
>>
>> Any other suggestions?
>
>There are some others, which happen to provide better compression than any
>of the above, but they are widely used on Microsoft platforms.
>
>> What amazes me, is how easy it is, to use .exe on Windows. It makes me
>> wonder why people prefer .zip...there has to be a reason. What is it?
>
>ZIP == portability. Works on every platform: Mac, Micorosft Windows and
>MS-DOS, and UNIX. Also ZIP is the basis of the JAR format expected by
>the Java programming environment. Whatever virtues Microsoft EXE files may
>appear to have ZIP is preferable.
>
>Regards, Trevor
>
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