Re: OS400 release levels

[James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Leif Svalgaard wrote:

> > p.s.  There may not have been zip files in '91 or tarballs in '87 - though
> > my first linux computer was in '94 and the compressed tarballs from it can
> > still be read today, 8 years and many releases later.
>
> actually, this will also work on the AS/400 going FORWARDS. You can
> restore an 8-year old save file on the newest box. You just can't go the
> other way (both for technical and for marketing reasons).

Of course, I forgot to mention that.  And it is true that my tarballs
compressed with bzip2 can't be restored on my 1994 Slackware 3.0 machine,
but I could compress with gzip (or even plain old compress) and I would be
able to restore them on good old linux 1.2.14.  And I'm reasonably certain
that something zipped on WinXP can be unzipped on Win3.1 (though I don't
know for sure).

James Rich