[vorbis] How to make Vorbis popular

[Beni Cherniavksy]

On 2002-01-12, fungus wrote:

> Craig Dickson wrote:
>
> > fungus wrote:
> >>The ARJ and RAR formats were better than zip and
> >>also free but they never knocked zip off the throne.
> >>
> > I was active in the modem BBS world when arj came out. I didn't see any
> > particular reason to use it.
> >
>
> I used it because it was better designed. eg. It could
> zip up a directory tree and restore it, folders and all,
> without putting all the files in one single directory.
> I lost count of the times people would send me a zip
> file without the full pathnames in it - you had to
> specify two different options to get it to do that,
> and another when you were decompressing.
>
> It could also split files into chunks for multiple
> floppys - sonething zip didn't do 'til much later.
>
>  > This leaves only one, jar32, that produces smaller
>  > files without a nasty performance penalty.
>
> jar was written by the same guy who wrote arj.
>
Jar alsop has a very cool multi-version compression feature, where it
comresses only the differences between files.  Good for archiving, though
now that I started using cvs, combining it with backing up the repository
is probably more flexible.  But again, jar is a single program.  That's
the difference between unix and windows, on unix people use more
advanced formats because they expect that the needed tools will be
installed on the target machines; on windows you can't expect people to
have even basic tools like a compiler.


-- 
Beni Cherniavsky <cben at tx.technion.ac.il>
                 (also scben at t2 in Technion)

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