[CREATE] Re: Open File Format for Raster/Bitmaps Graphics

Cyrille Berger cberger at cberger.net
Tue Mar 21 13:36:12 PST 2006


> We here understand this issue, but due to the bare possibility I expect
> many applications to brake this understanding. Why not simply put all this
> stuff into a tar file? It has no compression. No one can go wrong about
> double compression, thus creating slow to seek image files.
but we do want compression, when you archive your file, and in that respect 
zip is way more flexible than tar. You can choose which entry to compress at 
which rate and so on.

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--- Cyrille Berger ---


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