On 04/10/2012 07:54 PM, Pete wrote:
Hi Warren, It's the un-zipping at the other end that concerns me, not the zip on my machine. Sounds like the ability to handle tar files might require a Windows user to install some software. Pete
Yes, that is something completely different :D You could offer the more efficient tbz2 format for your Mac users (and your Linux users when you get to that) and the ZIP format for your Windows users. You could also offer your Windows users a tbz2 version alongside the ZIP version and some info on software they could use to open it. If your users have managed to find your software and are capable of installing it, they should also have no trouble installing the software to decompress the archive. You just don't want to make it a requirement! Will you need to recreate these archives so frequently that this will be a terrible burden on you?
It was Mark who commented that tar+compression seems like too much work without any benefit, and my original comment was mostly a response to that thought.
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