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Subject: Re: ATTN: CCC Archive Users

Author: Graham Laight

Date: 09:50:46 11/06/00

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Searchable database!  (well - I might as well ask...)

On November 06, 2000 at 12:15:02, Tim Mirabile wrote:

>It has been suggested that by using the CAB format instead of the ZIP format,
>compression ratios for the monthly archives could be greatly improved, resulting
>in file sizes about 1/3 of what they are now.  This is probably since ZIP only
>compresses the individual files and not across multiple files, so it is not the
>best way to compress lots of small text files.
>
>Windows users have several means to extract CAB files, but I am concerned that
>people using other platforms would have problems with this format.  If the CAB
>format is not universal enough, I would consider other compression formats which
>compress across multiple files.  Any ideas or suggestions?



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