Hello. I second the below opinion. I am used to Linux so I know about tar, gzip, bzip2, zip, etc. However it is still a pain to manipulate tar files under Windows. The bzip2 format isn't too bad but it is not easily installed or supported. It would turn many people off if they had to try to guess at how to use it. You could put the bzip2 package on the DVD but that defeats the purpose. Also I don't think using a compressed loop filesystem is a good idea. First, you have the overhead of the program which has to uncompress the loop. Second, you would have to run it on a separate OS like Linux so it would have to be bootable. People would have to boot the DVD to access the books and that would shut them out of their regular Windows systems unless you want to build that into the kernel and then you might as well just give them Knoppix and forget it. Also this keeps the blind out because there would be no easy way to add support for speach synthesizers. At 03:55 PM 9/14/2005 -0500, you wrote:
At 03:58 PM 9/14/2005, you wrote:
bzip2 is freely available for windows:
That's correct. However, I think that the better question to ask would be is it worth the added level of complexity for most users? For most of the people on this list, it is almost certainly no problem at all. However, for many others, it can be.