On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Antonio Carlini wrote:
> If reliable retrieval in the future is of no concern,
> then I propose a format conisting of an empty file.
> At least you'll be certain of what you get :-)
>
> Seriously, after all the discussion of bit-rot on
> various media, how can you consider some sort of
> checksum to be anything other than essential?
>
> Some sort of error-correcting code might be an
> even better idea.
I've considered that the spec should include the ability to encode in
several different DEFINED formats, using different DEFINED checksum
schemes.
An error-correcting CRC scheme would definitely be one.
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