Let's develop an open-source media archive standard

From: Doc Shipley <doc_at_mdrconsult.com>
Date: Wed Aug 11 12:45:44 2004

Doc Shipley wrote:

> Jules Richardson wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 15:57, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
>>
>>> On Wednesday 11 August 2004 09:50, Jules Richardson wrote:
>>>
>>>> "could be kept" in zip files, yes - but then that's no use in 50
>>>> years time if someone stumbles across a compressed file and has no
>>>> idea how to decompress it in order to read it and see what it is :-)
>>>
>>>
>>> UNIX's compress format has been around for decades now... has its
>>> patents expired yet? If not, there's always gzip...
>>
>>
>>
>> Unix goes pop in what, 2038 though? :-)
>
>
> *32-bit* Unix goes pop in 2038. Since every currently-maintained Unix
> (or Unix-alike for you OpenGroup fanatics) runs on 64-bit hardware and
> in 64-bit mode, I don't see it as a problem.

   Oh, crap, what a fubar! Unforgiveable, too, since my PDP-11 is
running 2.11BSD downstairs....

   s/every currently-maintained/almost every currently-maintained/


        Doc
Received on Wed Aug 11 2004 - 12:45:44 BST