Problem statement: understanding and interpretations of document versioning understanding and interpretations of document[s] compression Currently there are several file formats that support compression say such as .zip , .tar ,.bzip ...etc. Opportunity: Deriving from the above ...a portable document format that can be usable in collabration , communication ...in office automation and group-ware solutions ...that supports versioning. ex: this is only a indicative or for illustration ...how about if winzip or winrar support versioning of the documents embedded in the compressed file. potential solution: Given that every document has ideally a timestamp associated (creation,time of download, check-in in case of a versioning control system, last-updated ...etc), taking the timestamp as one of the attributes that decide the unique-ness of a file ...viz. ability access or retrive or refer to a file ...use-case modelling ...criteria from the context of a operating system... ...thus in or from the context of a GUI based access this fits the criteria aptly, to make the concept feasible in the context of command line based operations or access ...auto append (dynamic) of the timestamp to file name should solve the problem ...given the context that a timestamp is a attribute of a file ...usage of regex as also a view of the data on the storage-medium ...also given the providence of touch in the operating system context ...availability of such a tool ...scope for use or misuse ...as also in this context ....a potential potent means ...stem the mis use of touch ...given that duplicates cannot occur in scenarios like ...XML-RSS ...feeds!! ...potential scope for optimization when ...the operating systems support versioning of files embedded in them. Note: The above problem statement having been encountered in various scenarios and detailed in various 'Proof of concepts' as mentioned in 'http://uk.geocities.com/ravivenkatus/projects.pdf' ....apply appropriate 'use-case' modeling, rationalize and arrive at a workable and feasible solution both commercially and techinically viable.