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Subject: Re: CCC Archives - 70MB instead of 200MB! - ZIP vs. CAB

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 05:20:04 06/13/02

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On June 13, 2002 at 06:49:22, Sally Weltrop wrote:

>I converted all the CCC archives from 9/97 - 2/02 that were in ZIP format to CAB
>format. It was a substantial savings in size. I lopped off about 65%
>excessthrough better compression. The CAB format can easily be extracted with
>WinZIP and many of the other compression tools out. If ANYONE that hosts these
>files wants me to upload them to their site just let me know and I'll do it. It
>could save a lot of time for someone with dial-up connections to get a hold of
>the archives or for those trying to save space.
>
>CAB even did better in this instance than the latest versions of ACE & RAR

I don't think CAB is supported outside Windows.

Tar + bzip2 would be good universal solution that will be hard to beat.

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GCP

• Re: CCC Archives - 70MB instead of 200MB! - ZIP vs. CAB Sally Weltrop 16:37:31 06/13/02
• Re: CCC Archives - 70MB instead of 200MB! - ZIP vs. CAB Sally Weltrop 05:52:02 06/13/02
  • Re: CCC Archives - 70MB instead of 200MB! - ZIP vs. CAB Daniel Clausen 06:13:02 06/13/02
    • Re: CCC Archives - 70MB instead of 200MB! - ZIP vs. CAB Sally Weltrop 12:11:07 06/13/02
      • Re: CCC Archives - 70MB instead of 200MB! - ZIP vs. CAB Dan Andersson 14:30:26 06/13/02

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