Re: NXP Gone mad

On Jun 22, 4:13 am, David Brown <d...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

bzip2 has been a standard for compression for many years, but it is
little known in the windows world. This is mainly because of the
fundamental difference in philosophy of how problems are solved in the
windows world, and how they are solved in the *nix world - with windows
(stemming from single-tasking DOS), you have a single program doing lots
of things, and with *nix, you have lots of programs doing single things.
Thus windows users are used to "zip", which takes lots of files and
squashes them together in one archive. *nix users are used to "tar",
which combines lots of files in an archive, and "gzip" or "bzip2" which
compress a single file. These are often used together (as "tar.bz2" or
"tgz" files, for instance), but not necessarily.

Short answer: if it ain't in WinZip or XP's built-in file-compression
tool, for the vast majority of Windows it doesn't exist.

Mac OS X, of course, being Unix, handles whatever you throw at it.

-a

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