[vorbis] How to make Vorbis popular

[Beni Cherniavksy]

On 2002-01-13, volsung at asu.edu wrote:

>
>
> On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
>
> > > 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.
> >
> > gzip -d  decompresses, just like gunzip.  bzip2 -d as well.
>
> In fact, on my system, gzip and gunzip ARE the same program.  They are hard
> linked to the same inode, and therefore identical.  I presume the program just
> checks its own name to decide what default action to perform.
>
Sure.  But cvs, tar and gzip are different programs.  That's natural for
unix people but psycologically problematic for windows people.  That
annoyingly limits the design of windows tools.  I would use a thousand
separate tools on my windows machine (if it will cope ;) but I can't
expect the people to whom I send the files to have them.  If jar would be
supported on unix, and the format would be documented, I would probably
still use it.  And if I don't stop writing off-topic by myself soon,
somebody please shut my mouth ;)


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

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