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> Most popular solutions like Zip, gzip, tar, RAR, or 7-Zip are near or more than three decades old. If I can't extract .pack archives 3 decades from now, the
by lordmauve 2y ago
> Most popular solutions like Zip, gzip, tar, RAR, or 7-Zip are near or more than three decades old.
If I can't extract .pack archives 3 decades from now, the use of SQLite 3 will be the reason.
- rpdillon 2y agoWhat makes you think that? It's a very widely-used and stable format, cited as a great format for archival use. The Library of Congress has a page that goes into some depth with respect to their sustainability analysis for the format. https://www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/fdd/fdd000461.shtml https://www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/fdd/fdd0004...